US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 24 for "Motor vehicle having a coupling mechanism and a functionally secured parking lock device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,234, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Motor vehicle having a coupling mechanism and a functionally secured parking lock device" was invented by Klaus Zelger (Taufkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle has an electric drive machine for driving the motor vehicle and a coupling mechanism which can be switched at least between a coupling position, in which the electric drive machine is coupled to a drive wheel so as to transmit torque, and a decoupling position in which the electric drive machine is decoupled from the drive wheel. A parking lock device has at least one par...