US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "Charging management for electric work vehicles with vehicle-to-vehicle negotiation" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,195, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Charging management for electric work vehicles with vehicle-to-vehicle negotiation" was invented by Thomas L. Twigger (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of charger management for electric work vehicles comprises communicating charger properties from a charging module to a first controller and communicating vehicle properties from the electric work vehicle to a second controller. A charging decision is made based on the charger properties and the vehicle properties, wherein the charging decision is made by a third controller. In an event that ...