US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 3 for "Sequential DC fast charging with integrated simultaneous AC charging" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,017, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Sequential DC fast charging with integrated simultaneous AC charging" was invented by Andrew Blake Robinson (Highland, Ill.) and Dustin Craig Selvey (Eureka, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques to start the sequential DC fast charging process of an electric machine and then switch to AC charging of the electric machine at a given state of charge percentage while also starting to DC fast charge another electric machine in the fleet."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/238,946.

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