US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Dec. 9 for "Devices, systems and methods for automatically predicting maintenance events" (Swiss, French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,287, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Devices, systems and methods for automatically predicting maintenance events" was invented by Alexandre Erriquez (Chene-Bourg, Switzerland), Arnaud Dubreuil (Bassy, France), Travis A. Busen (Chicago), Stephen Berning (Germantown Hills, Ill.), Davide Gerbaudo (Peron, France), Jose Pitteloud (Chene-Bourg, Switzerland), Brandon Bill (Washington, Ill.) and Guillaume Gard (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is generally directed to maintenance event prediction systems for industrial machines. In some embodiments, a maintenance event predictio...