ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,899, issued on March 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Variable geometry turbocharger control" was invented by Kevin Weiss (Peoria, Ill.), James Mutti (Germantown Hills, Ill.), Ryan Treanor (Peoria, Ill.), Nicholas Williams (Dunlap, Ill.) and Emanuelle Carduner (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine includes a VGT and a controller. The controller monitors, based on causing the VGT to operate according to the non-dynamic control scheme, a plurality of hardware limit parameters associated with an engine of the machine. The controller determines that a hardware limit parameter, of the plurality of ha...