US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 16 for "System, apparatus, and method for monitoring a generator" (Georgia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,223, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System, apparatus, and method for monitoring a generator" was invented by Robert H. Kastle (Fayetteville, Ga.) and Troy Roberts (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generators, systems, and methods can comprise a resistance temperature detector (RTD) module; a controller area network (CAN) module; and an optical interface between the RTD module and the CAN module. The optical interface can be directly connected to each of the RTD module and the CAN module. The RTD module can be configured to convert first optical signals from the optical interface to ...