US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Aug. 5 for "Optimized high-speed cylinder pressure data retrieval and reporting" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,285, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Optimized high-speed cylinder pressure data retrieval and reporting" was invented by Andrew Jordon Neaville (Mt. Pulaski, Ill.), Michael Todd Graziano (Washington, Ill.), Jeffrey Michael Thate (Washington, Ill.), Erik Alexander Lau (Peoria, Ill.) and John D. Parker (Dunlap, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine includes an engine that includes a plurality of cylinders, one or more controllers, and a monitoring and reporting module. The monitoring and reporting module receives, from the one or more controllers, and via a first data link of the machine, cyl...