US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 22 for "Load sharing techniques for electric power sources" (Vermont, Illinois, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,404, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Load sharing techniques for electric power sources" was invented by Philip L. Limoge (Bridport, Vt.), Matthew L. Andrews (Woodstock, Ga.) and Edward M. Schroeder (Germantown Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described that not only weigh frequency/voltage and real/reactive load sharing separately, but also utilize a window around a setpoint, such as a percentage of an output range, and determine whether there is oscillation. In response, a control system can adjust a time-independent component of a closed-loop controller to weaken the ...