US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on March 17 for "System, apparatus, and method for machine-to-machine charging at a worksite" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,392, issued on March 17, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"System, apparatus, and method for machine-to-machine charging at a worksite" was invented by Derek K. Huhn (Monticello, Minn.), Robert K. Iverson (Maple Grove, Minn.), Anwar T. Alnatsheh (Maple Grove, Minn.), Kenneth G. Jones (Princeton, Minn.) and John L Marsolek (Watertown, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus, and method may operatively couple machines, each powered, at least in part by an energy accumulator, together to charge one machine using power of another machine. On condition that a first remaining amount...