US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Automated self testing of an electric field sensing device" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,924, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Automated self testing of an electric field sensing device" was invented by Gowtham Venkatraman (Peoria, Ill.), Andrew Genseal (Chillicothe, Ill.), Justin Lee Steinlage (Mackinaw, Ill.) and Jun Zuo (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an automated self-testing system may include an electric field source and a controller. The controller may detect a trigger event associated with initiating a self test of an electric field sensing device. The controller may cause, based on the trigger event, the electric field source to create a t...