US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on June 23 for "Electric axle and electric axle product line" (Michigan, Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,965, issued on June 23, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric axle and electric axle product line" was invented by Darren J. Ziskovsky (Bowling Green, Ohio), Eric M. Engerman (Plymouth, Mich.), Ryan D. Nelms (Weatherford, Texas) and Benjamin Powell (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for an electric axle. The electric axle includes, in one example, a traction motor, an input planetary gear set arranged coaxial to the traction motor and including a sun gear rotationally coupled to the traction motor, a carrier including a first section coupled to multiple carrier shaf...