US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on March 18 for "Driveline system with hydraulic coupling and power take-off (PTO) and method for operation of the system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,011, issued on March 18, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Driveline system with hydraulic coupling and power take-off (PTO) and method for operation of the system" was invented by Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium) and Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driveline system and driveline operating method are provided herein. In one example, the driveline system includes a hydraulic coupling designed to rotationally couple to a prime mover and an output interface designed to rotationally couple to a downstream driveline component, and a power take-off (PTO) assembly. The PTO assembly...