US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 15 for "System and method for mobile drilling machine" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,958, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for mobile drilling machine" was invented by Sandy Wayne Pyke (Saint-Constant, Canada) and Virajkumar Gohil (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generator of a drill string of a mobile machine includes a thermal electric generator positioned along the drill string, the thermal electric generator configured to generate power using a portion of bailing air flowing through the drill string, the portion of the bailing air being diverted to the thermal electric generator; and one or more components positioned along the drill string, t...