US Patent Issued to Oshkosh on Sept. 9 for "Structural refuse vehicle body with undermounted batteries" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,718, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Structural refuse vehicle body with undermounted batteries" was invented by Colin Wheeler (Oshkosh, Wis.), Jeremy Andringa (Oshkosh, Wis.), Erik S. Ellifson (Oshkosh, Wis.), Peter Kramer (Oshkosh, Wis.), Nader Nasr (Neenah, Wis.), Martin J. Schimke (Red Granite, Wis.), Chad Smith (Omro, Wis.), Ryan Wolf (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Christopher Yakes (Oshkosh, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes a front subframe, a rear subframe, and a body that connects the front subframe to the rear subframe so that forces acting on the front subframe and...