US Patent Issued to Herkules Equipment on Sept. 8 for "Drive mechanism" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,751, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Herkules Equipment Corp. (Walled Lake, Mich.).

"Drive mechanism" was invented by Todd John Bacon (Northville, Mich.) and Eliana Virginia Podolski Bacon (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism includes a stacked motor assembly. The stacked motor assembly includes a first motor, a first rotatable driver member rotationally fixed to the first motor, a second motor vertically spaced from the first motor, and a second rotatable driver member rotationally fixed to the second motor. The drive mechanism also includes an output shaft spaced from the first motor and the second...