US Patent Issued to Caterpillar on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for identifying modifications to terrain characteristics of a worksite for battery performance" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,329, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for identifying modifications to terrain characteristics of a worksite for battery performance" was invented by Michael D. Braunstein (Washington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods can identify or determine one or more of the candidate route segments of a worksite to modify in order to improve battery usage and/or battery health for one or more vehicles upon future traversal of the one or more candidate route segments by the one or more vehicles. The one or more candidate route segments can be identified using terrain d...