ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,419, issued on June 2, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electric drive system for a vehicle, and method for operating an electric drive system" was invented by Nathan Troster (Stuttgart, Germany), Markus Orner (Rennigen, Germany) and Urs Boehme (Ehningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a vehicle includes first and second three-phase electric machines driving a vehicle axle and an electrical energy store electrically supplying the first and second three-phase electric machines during a driving operation of the vehicle. A first and second inverter of the first and second ...