ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,767, issued on July 15, was assigned to Herkules Equipment Corp. (Walled Lake, Mich.).
"Low-profile drive mechanism" was invented by Todd John Bacon (Northville, Mich.) and Eliana Virginia Podolski Bacon (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism includes a mount block extending along an axis and a plurality of electric motors supported by the mount block. The electric motors are arranged in series along the axis to define an initial electric motor, one or more intermediate electric motors, and a final electric motor. The drive mechanism also includes a gear mounted to each of the electric motors, and an outp...