US Patent Issued to Twin Disc on June 10 for "Hybrid industrial machine powertrain" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,301, issued on June 10, was assigned to Twin Disc Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"Hybrid industrial machine powertrain" was invented by Ryan Malloy (Milwaukee) and Andrew Conaty (West Allis, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial machine is provided that includes a hybrid powertrain. The hybrid powertrain includes a PTI/PTO (power-take-in/power-take-off) system that can passively decouple an internal combustion engine from other powertrain components. The hybrid powertrain allows the industrial machine to operate in power delivering modes, in which an internal combustion engine and/or an electric motor(s) are prime movers, a fully e...