US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "System and method for controlling battery preconditioning in a work machine" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,512, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for controlling battery preconditioning in a work machine" was invented by Curtis John Caldwell (Metamora, Ill.) and Cedric Girin (St. Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery-powered work machine includes a control system for determining a threshold state of charge for the battery at which to seek instruction from an operator whether to precondition the battery for a Fast Charge. The control system evaluates various current parameters in the machine, such as battery cell temperature, ambient temperature, battery state ...