ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,532, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Drive assembly, axle and work machine" was invented by Manuel Mann (Huffenhardt, Germany), Matthias Lang (Mannheim, Germany), Stefan Raisch (Vaihingen, Germany), Frank Buhrke (Birkenau, Germany) and Rainer Gugel (Plankstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly for a work machine includes an energy machine, a rotational speed compensating device, a first power output, and a magnetic-electric epicyclic gear set connected to the energy machine via a drive shaft, the magnetic-electric epicyclic gear set being arranged to adjust the rotational s...