US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 7 for "Startup fault checking of paralleled devices" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,583, issued on July 7, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Startup fault checking of paralleled devices" was invented by Rodney L. Menold (Hanna City, Ill.) and Jason Lee Miller (Princeville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical energy system for a work machine includes a rechargeable electrical energy source to provide electrical energy to power the work machine, multiple energy management devices, and a system controller. The multiple energy management devices each include at least one electrical component. The energy management devices are modular, and the electrical component or components of each energy...