ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,367, issued on July 22, was assigned to Knoxville Locomotive Works Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.).
"Battery powered locomotive" was invented by Pete Claussen (Knoxville, Tenn.), Scott Gatewood (Knoxville, Tenn.), Michael Thomason (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Todd Burchette (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locomotive comprises a DC power bus, traction motors, batteries, and a charging source, but has no prime mover engine. Each traction motor includes armature and field windings connected in parallel across the DC power bus. The batteries provide power to the DC power bus when in a motoring mode, and receive power from the DC pow...