ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,875, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Modular resistor grid assembly and resistive grid system" was invented by Pruthvi Raj Gaddam (Peoria, Ill.), Dennis Christopher Agee (Newark, Texas), Drew Devlin Carlton (Peoria, Ill.), Dustin Scott Friedrich (Groveland, Ill.) and Jacob Dean Randall (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a modular resistor grid system include a mount and a plurality of modular resistor grid assemblies that interchangeably couple to the mount. At least two modular resistor grid assemblies are in the plurality. Each has a housing and a pl...