US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Feb. 24 for "All wheel drive electric transmission" (Ohio, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,228, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"All wheel drive electric transmission" was invented by William F. Waltz (Toledo, Ohio), Darren J. Ziskovsky (Bowling Green, Ohio) and Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric drive. The electric drive system includes, in one example, an electric machine, and a multi-speed transmission rotationally coupled to the electric machine, rotationally coupled to two output shafts. The multi-speed transmission includes a differentiating meshed planet compound planetary gear set rotationally...