ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,549, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work vehicle" was invented by Yuji Hirase (Sakai, Japan), Sumio Yagyu (Sakai, Japan), Kazuto Okazaki (Sakai, Japan) and Tsunehiro Ii (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid transmission includes an electric transmission and a gear transmission. The electric transmission includes a first motor generator and a second motor generator. The second motor generator is on a side of the first motor generator on which side the gear transmission is located. An output transmission to transmit the output from the second motor generator to the gear transmission is on...