ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,127, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Drive device for a vehicle axle" was invented by Alfred Rehr (Hepberg, Germany), Tassilo Scholle (Gaimersheim, Germany), Bjorn Kurten-Pachowsky (Eichstatt, Germany) and Kay-Uwe Henning (Dachau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for a vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, which has an axle differential, the input side of which is drivingly connected to an electric machine and the output sides of which drive on flange shafts leading to the two vehicle wheels. The vehicle axle has a superposition gear with a multi-disk clutch on each side of the v...