US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 15 for "Dynamic service interval scheduling for machine" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,941, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Dynamic service interval scheduling for machine" was invented by Karl P. Schneider (Decatur, Ill.) and Andrew Olson (Vail, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic service interval scheduling in a machine includes receiving monitoring signals for a plurality of components in the machine each indicative of an operating characteristic upon which a state-of-health (SOH) of one of the plurality of components is dependent. An SOH term is calculated for each one of the components based on the monitoring signals and a stored SOH degradation progression profile. ...