US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for queue management of machines based on battery-related characteristics" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,943, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for queue management of machines based on battery-related characteristics" was invented by Andrew J. Vitale (Edwards, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can position or provide a mobile machine in a queue of a plurality of the mobile machines such that an estimated future amount of energy of an energy source if the mobile machine is at or above a required amount of energy of the energy source to complete a predetermined task after the mobile machine reaches an end of the queue. Such positioning or providing can include o...