ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,834, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VITO N.V. (Mol, Belgium).

"Electric machine with hybrid energy storage devices" was invented by Mohammad Meraj Alam (Mol, Belgium), Peter Coenen (Mol, Belgium) and Klaas De Craemer (Mol, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine including a first energy consuming unit and a second energy consuming unit, the first energy consuming unit requiring a higher power energy source and the second energy consuming unit requiring a lower power energy source, wherein the machine further includes a first energy storage device and a second energy storage device, the first energy storage devi...