MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311071681 A) filed by Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty. Ltd., City of Burnie, Australia, on Oct. 20, 2023, for 'systems and methods for cooling a secondary battery used for underground mining machines.'

Inventor(s) include Atluri, Venkata Subba Reddy; Albert, Domenic Raoul; Cai, Zhijun; Njos, Erick Alan; and Ramasamy, Sivakumar.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A work machine includes a tank of secondary battery coolant to act as a heat sink to cool a secondary battery. When a power unit is available for use to provide elec...