US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 12 for "Thermal wakeup for battery management system controller" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,964, issued on May 12, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Thermal wakeup for battery management system controller" was invented by Matthew Lee Boggs (Metamora, Ill.) and Jason Lee Miller (Princeville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring circuit for a battery system of a work machine includes a system controller configured to operate in a low power mode when the battery system is inactive, a sensing circuit element configured to produce an electrical sensor signal representative of an environmental parameter of the battery system, and a wakeup circuit configured to generate a controller activation signal whe...