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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2021
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Derek K. Huhn, Monticello, MN (US);
Robert K. Iverson, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Anwar T. Alnatsheh, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Kenneth G. Jones, Princeton, MN (US);
John L Marsolek, Watertown, MN (US);
Caterpillar Paving Products Inc., Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Abstract
A system, apparatus, and method may operatively couple machines, each powered, at least in part by an energy accumulator, together to charge one machine using power of another machine. On condition that a first remaining amount of power in a first machine is less a first total amount of power needed to complete a first task and charging of the first machine takes priority over completion of a second task to be completed by a second machine, the second machine can travel to the first machine and charge a first energy accumulator in the first machine.