US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on July 15 for "System and method for autonomously controlling fluid refill station" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,780, issued on July 15, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"System and method for autonomously controlling fluid refill station" was invented by Ruchi Bhatia (Dunlap, Ill.) and Mark Banham (Victoria Point, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for autonomously controlling a fluid refill station (FRS) includes a sensor that generates an input signal indicative of an amount of fluid in a tank of an autonomous truck and a central controller. The central controller monitors the amount of fluid in the tank and assigns the autonomous truck to the FRS if the amount of fluid has reached a minimum threshold value. Th...