US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on March 17 for "Detecting an unusual operation of a vehicle outside of a time fence and notifying neighboring vehicles" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,849, issued on March 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Detecting an unusual operation of a vehicle outside of a time fence and notifying neighboring vehicles" was invented by Daniel Adler (Peoria, Ill.), Julie Gannon (Peoria, Ill.) and Joshua Reed (Galesburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system obtains a current time and a time fence indicating a daily time period and determines whether the current time is within the time fence. Upon determining that the current time is outside the time fence, the system operates the battery in a low-power mode, where the low-power mode is configured to conse...