US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for control of dissipation devices" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,977, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for control of dissipation devices" was invented by Brian Eugene Lister (Edwards, Ill.), Sufiyan Ahmed (Peoria, Ill.) and Royce E Leaders (Oswego, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a feed forward control system for engaging a dissipative energy system for dissipating energy produced by a motor of an electrically-powered machine as a result of deceleration of the machine, for example to decelerate and execute a directional change for the machine. The control system includes a feed forward system that engages based ...