US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on May 20 for "Electrical architecture for battery powered machine" (Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,329, issued on May 20, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Electrical architecture for battery powered machine" was invented by Matthew Lawrence Hendrickson (Dunlap, Ill.), Eric M. Andris (Dunlap, Ill.), Dustin Craig Selvey (Eureka, Ill.), Bradley Scott Bailey (Edwards, Ill.) and Igor Strashny (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical architecture that allows power to be transferred to a battery powered machine while the machine is moving and that allows the machine to be charged while stationary."

The patent was filed on Nov. 7, 2022, under Application No. 17/981,849.

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