US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on June 23 for "Propulsion power control in electrical work machines" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,797, issued on June 23, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Propulsion power control in electrical work machines" was invented by Karl P. Schneider (Decatur, Ill.), Cameron T. Lane (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Andrew Olson (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power delivery control apparatus for work machines that derive propulsion power from electrical power sources during a work task includes data processor circuitry and power controller circuitry. The data processor circuitry is constructed to accept a data set indicating a propulsion power requirement for performing the work task and to generate power delivery l...