ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,648, issued on March 31, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive device for a motor vehicle, in particular for a car" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany) and Goran Ogrizovic (Nuertingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for a motor vehicle has an electric engine formed as an axial flow engine, which has a stator and two rotors that can be rotated in relation to the stator. The stator is arranged between the rotors in the axial direction of the axial flow engine. A differential transmission is arranged at least partially radially ...