US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 1 for "Automatically controlling a power ramp rate of a motor of a pump system" (Texas, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,144, issued on July 1, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Automatically controlling a power ramp rate of a motor of a pump system" was invented by Andy Publes (Katy, Texas), Mark Francis Grimes (Cypress, Texas), Riadh Benguedda (Cypress, Texas), Yuesheng He (Sugar Land, Texas), Mark C Paul (Carmel, Ind.) and Todd Ryan Kabrich (Tomball, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller that is associated with a pump system causes a power ramp rate of a motor of the pump system to have an initial power ramp rate. The controller monitors, after causing the power ramp rate of the motor to have the initial power ramp rate, a...