ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,097, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Powertrain and working machine" was invented by Stefan Igl (Vilshofen, Germany) and Thomas Oberbuchner (Traunstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a powertrain (10) for a working machine, with a first electric machine (12) having a first drive output shaft (16) for providing drive power to the working machine and a second electric machine (14) having a second drive output shaft (24) for providing an auxiliary power take-off of the working machine. In addition, the powertrain (10) comprises a driving rang...