ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,843, issued on April 7, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Electric drive for a vehicle" was invented by Theodor Gassmann (Siegburg, Germany), John Foulsham (Hampshire, Great Britain), Ian Stone (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Daniel Beeby (Norfolk, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive for a vehicle comprises a housing, an electric machine with a stator connected to the housing and including stator end-windings, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a driveshaft connected to the rotor and rotatably supported in the housing about an axis of rotation, a transmission to t...