ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,366, issued on July 15, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).
"Transmission with power take-off" was invented by Jan Markey (Wingene, Belgium), Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium), Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium) and Bert Hannon (Bruges, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing power to a mechanical system of an electric vehicle are described. The methods and systems may be applied to vehicles that include hydraulically operated systems and that are propelled via an electric machine. The methods and systems may allow a single electric machine to propel a vehicle and drive an external...