US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Battery condition monitoring system and method for an engine start up system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,156, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Battery condition monitoring system and method for an engine start up system" was invented by Yifeng Lu (Naperville, Ill.), Zhaoxu Dong (Dunlap, Ill.), Xuefei Hu (Dunlap, Ill.), Shiferaw Damtie Beyene (Peorias, Ill.) and Yanchai Zhang (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Typically, mobile equipment, such as tractors and heavy duty machinery, require engine start up systems to provide a strong surge of power necessary for starting engines. Traditional engine start up systems use lead-acid batteries for providing an initial voltage. However, monitoring th...