ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,400, issued on April 14, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Planetary transmission, in particular for a motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Heiner Kunckel (Heroldstatt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary transmission has a collecting groove for a lubricant and a planetary gear set having a planetary support rotatable around a planetary gear set axis of rotation in relation to a housing of the planetary transmission, planetary gears rotatably mounted on the planetary support, and a ring gear meshing with the planetary gears. The transmission has a disc c...