US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Sept. 22 for "Circulation sump device for an electric drive unit of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,431, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Circulation sump device for an electric drive unit of a vehicle" was invented by Benjamin Krank (Munich), Ferdinand Weidinger (Munich) and Bernhard Wolf (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circulation sump device for an electric drive unit of a motor vehicle, which can be lubricated and/or temperature-controlled via a lubricant, comprising a lubricant sump with a first axial region and a second axial region, a lubricant reservoir which extends below the lubricant sump in the first axial region and is connected to the lubricant sump via a lubricant d...