US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Oct. 20 for "Transfer switch for multiple power sources and multiple electrical loads" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,166, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Transfer switch for multiple power sources and multiple electrical loads" was invented by Prajod Krishnan Kutty (Palakkad District, India) and Firoz Ahamed (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller may monitor measurements taken by a sensor configured to measure an environmental condition. The controller may cause, provided that one or more of the measurements fail to satisfy a threshold, connection of the secondary power source to a load that is configured to provide conditioning of the environmental condition. The controller may detect tha...