US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Electric axle drive train, control unit, and computer programme product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,256, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric axle drive train, control unit, and computer programme product" was invented by Thomas Riedel (Erlangen, Germany) and Robert Schieck (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an electric axle drive train of a motor vehicle. The drive train includes an electric machine having a rotor which is mounted rotatably relative to a stator and can be supplied with current by a control unit, a gear assembly which is coupled to the rotor and a first rotatably mounted output shaft which is operatively...