US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Bus bar current sensor mounting bracket" (Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,866, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Bus bar current sensor mounting bracket" was invented by C. Brahm Landis (Indianapolis), Timothy R. Beetler (Peoria, Ill.) and Brian R. Bell (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bracket assembly for supporting a pass-through current sensor with respect to a bus bar is disclosed. The bracket assembly has two sections which each contain channels that conform to the shape of one or more segment of the bus bar. The sections are configured to couple to one another over the segments such that the bracket assembly is clamped to the bus bar. An apertu...