US Patent Issued to Wirtgen on July 14 for "Self-propelled earth working machine having an electrically driven working apparatus and a balanced weight distribution" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,244, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wirtgen GmbH (Windhagen, Germany).

"Self-propelled earth working machine having an electrically driven working apparatus and a balanced weight distribution" was invented by Markus Bach (Bonn, Germany) and Philipp Prassel (Neustadt/Wied, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earth working machine includes a machine frame, a plurality of rollable drive units, a rotatable working apparatus rotatable about an axis of rotation, an electric work drive, an electrical energy store, and a receiving configuration for receiving a conveyor. In a reference state in which the earth working machine stands...