US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 9 for "Electric grasping apparatus for refuse vehicle" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,566, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Electric grasping apparatus for refuse vehicle" was invented by Wallace Buege (Oshkosh, Wis.), Martin Schimke (Oshkosh, Wis.), Joshua D. Rocholl (Rochester, Minn.), Jerrod Kappers (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Andrew Kotloski (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully-electric grabber assembly includes a first grabber arm, a second grabber arm, an electric motor, and a plurality of gears. The plurality of gears includes a first gear coupled with the electric motor, an intermediate gear coupled with the first gear, and an arm gear coupled with the first grabber ...