ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,942, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).

"Methods and systems for identifying fleet errors" was invented by Maheshwar Ramoju (Edwards, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for detecting and correcting errors and abnormalities in assembling fleet lists within one or more platforms. A fleet management system can analyze asset information, such as last known position, history of device attachments, or joins between devices/datasets, to detect and correct errors and abnormalities in the assembling fleet lists. The fleet management system can use rules as filter...