US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Aug. 25 for "Vocational vehicle with compact suspension assembly" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,256, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Vocational vehicle with compact suspension assembly" was invented by Steve Volkman (Oshkosh, Wis.), Erik Ellifson (Oshkosh, Wis.), Evan Schertz (Oshkosh, Wis.), David Steinberger (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Andrew Kotloski (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension assembly includes a knuckle, a subframe coupled to the frame rail by a plurality of brackets, an H-arm coupled between the knuckle and the subframe, an upper control arm arranged above the H-arm and coupled between the knuckle and the subframe, and a dual spring assembly biased between the knuc...