US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 5 for "Roller-mounted motor vehicle drive unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,456, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Roller-mounted motor vehicle drive unit" was invented by Richard Baeumler (Munich), Tobias Riesch (Lenggries, Germany) and Michael Staake (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle drive system has a traction transmission device. A traction transmission drive shaft is rotatably mounted in a transmission device housing. A traction transmission intermediate shaft is rotatably mounted in the transmission housing. A traction transmission output shaft is rotatably mounted in the transmission housing device, and is arranged axially parallel to and radial...