US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 3 for "System and method for determining position of power rail of electric power supply system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,013, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for determining position of power rail of electric power supply system" was invented by David Gingerich (Dunlap, Ill.) and Ruchi Bhatia (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a position of a power rail of an electric power supply system at a worksite includes a work machine, a first sensor that generates a first input signal corresponding to a geographical position of the work machine, a second sensor that generates a second input signal indicative of a distance between the work machine and the power rail, and a co...