ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,728, issued on May 27, was assigned to Polaris Industries Inc. (Medina, Minn.).

"Hybrid utility vehicle" was invented by Eric J. Borud (Roseau, Minn.), Jeremy M. Markstrom (La Crosse, Wis.), Michael A. Thomas (Salol, Minn.), Greg B. Miner (West Haven, Utah), Christopher P. Matko (Chisago City, Minn.) and Bradley A. Bracht (Salol, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling assembly for a hybrid vehicle includes a first cooling system configured to cool an engine and a second cooling system separate from the first cooling system and configured to cool a plurality of electrical components. The second cooling system is configured wit...