ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,986, issued on April 29, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Method for monitoring operation of a hydraulic system" was invented by Pengfei Ma (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to method for monitoring operation of a hydraulic system, in particular of a hydraulic system of a working machine, having at least one hydraulic actuator. The method comprises a step of determining a predefined operating condition of the hydraulic system; a step of determining an input power parameter being indicative of a power provided by an engine to the hydraulic system during the predetermined operat...