ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,382, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for a hydraulic system" was invented by Andrew Olson (Vail, Ariz.), Dustin D. Denning (Chillicothe, Ill.), Christopher L. Wynkoop (Eureka, Ill.), Srikar Thaduvayi (Oro Valley, Ariz.) and Karl P. Schneider (Decatur, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an electric motor driving a hydraulic pump for a battery-powered electric mobile machine includes receiving one or more command signals for one or more hydraulically-driven systems. The method also includes determining a minimum pump speed for each of the one or more hyd...