US Patent Issued to Oshkosh Defense on Sept. 22 for "Electrified military vehicle" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,527, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oshkosh Defense LLC (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Electrified military vehicle" was invented by Chad Smith (Omro, Wis.), Mitchel Nordahl (Oshkosh, Wis.), Mikel Ullman (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jessica Szymanski (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Bradon Zeitler (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front end accessory drive (FEAD) for a military vehicle. The FEAD includes a first belt, a second belt, multiple accessories, an electric motor-generator, at least one other accessory, and a sprag clutch. The accessories and the electric motor-generator are coupled with the first belt. The at least one other accessory, the f...