US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Paving Products on April 14 for "Hybrid powertrain for planer" (Minnesota, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,126, issued on April 14, was assigned to Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

"Hybrid powertrain for planer" was invented by Luke E. Graham (Missoula, Mont.), Brian J. Schlenker (Shoreview, Minn.) and Toby A. Frelich (Saint Michael, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid powertrain system of a planer, the hybrid powertrain system comprising an internal combustion engine, a rotor/cutter mechanically coupled with the internal combustion engine, a generator mechanically coupled with the internal combustion engine, an energy storage system including an energy module having at least one energy storage cell, whe...