ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,365, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ox Partners LLC (Lake Oswego, Ore.).
"Multi-voltage auxiliary power system for heavy-duty equipment" was invented by Scott Hamilton Rumbaugh (Tigard, Ore.) and Nathan Robert Hoch (Fort Wayne, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-voltage auxiliary power system is for heavy-duty equipment having a starter and vehicle electronics powered by a nominal 12V supply. The multi-voltage auxiliary power system has a battery system configured to provide first and second output voltage levels that are different from each other, in which the first output voltage level is higher than the second outpu...