US Patent Issued to OSHKOSH on Sept. 2 for "Lift device with internally depletable battery" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,049, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to OSHKOSH Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Lift device with internally depletable battery" was invented by David Lombardo (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack for a lift device includes a housing, battery cells, a resistor, a conductive element, and a member. The resistor is electrically coupled with a positive terminal of the battery cells. The conductive element is configured to transition between an open state in which a discharge path is not defined between the positive terminal of the battery cells and a negative terminal or a ground, and a closed state in which the discharge ...