US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Sept. 8 for "System and method of entering a low power mode for a battery electric machine" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,492, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method of entering a low power mode for a battery electric machine" was invented by Russell A. Brockhurst (Carindale, Australia) and Ruchi P. Bhatia (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for entering a low power mode of operation of a battery electric machine (BEM) are provided. The method includes determining a location of a battery electric machine (BEM) allocated to a production circuit; determining a location of a charging station compatible with the BEM; based at least in part on the location of the BEM, the location o...