ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,584, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"System and method of operating engines of work machines" was invented by John Bernard Hessling (Marquette Heights, Ill.) and Richard Lane Fulcher (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an engine of a work machine, via a controller, includes detecting a request for a transmission shift of a transmission of the work machine from a neutral gear to a desired starting gear; determining a current transmission output speed of the transmission; determining a desired transmission output speed of the transmission corresponding to the desired sta...