ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,440, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive device for a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor car" was invented by Martin Blessing (Neckartenzlingen, Germany), Rainer Pauls (Vaihingen, Germany), Markus Herkommer (Vaihingen, Germany), Frank Hoffmann (Stuttgart, Germany) and Alexander Buy (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive device has an electric engine which has one rotor and one stator, gear components via which the motor vehicle can be driven by the electric engine, and a cooling and lubricating device which has a lubricant and coolant circ...