US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 15 for "Drive unit of a vehicle which can be operated by means of muscle power and/or motor power" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,142, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive unit of a vehicle which can be operated by means of muscle power and/or motor power" was invented by Daniel Schwenk (Dornstetten, Germany), Sigmund Braun (Kusterdingen, Germany), Christoph Schumacher (Dusslingen, Germany), Harald Hundt (Aichelberg, Germany), Julian Binder (Wannweil, Germany), Peter Kimmich (Steinenbronn, Germany) and Stefan Holst (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit of a vehicle includes a motor and a crankshaft mechanically coupled by a transmission and located within a housing. The transmission inclu...