US Patent Issued to Siemens Mobility on Feb. 17 for "Electric drive system, power train, vehicle, and method of operating an electric drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,263, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Electric drive system, power train, vehicle, and method of operating an electric drive system" was invented by Christoph Adam (Nuremberg, Germany), Matthias Corduan (Nuremberg, Germany) and Olaf Korner (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a vehicle, such as a rail vehicle, has a plurality of different drive motors. The motors include at least one permanently excited motor as a drive and at least one further motor selected from the group of asynchronous motor and reluctance motor as a drive motor. The permanently excited...