US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on March 17 for "Electrified fire fighting vehicle" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,802, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Electrified fire fighting vehicle" was invented by David Archer (Hortonville, Wis.), Eric Linsmeier (Larson, Wis.), Chad Radtke (Oshkosh, Wis.), Tim Nelson (Oshkosh, Wis.), Seth Newlin (Appleton, Wis.) and David Kay (Appleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified fire fighting vehicle includes a chassis having a pair of frame rails, a cab coupled to the chassis, a body coupled to the chassis rearward of the cab, an electric motor coupled to the chassis between the pair of frame rails, an energy storage system positioned between the cab and the bod...