ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,998, issued on April 21, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Drive assembly for a motor vehicle" was invented by Piotr Kalinowski (Berlin), Thomas Schroeder (Berlin), Christoph Stelzer (Ruehen, Germany) and Robert Maria Bass (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly for a motor vehicle, having a drive with a housing, enclosing at least one electrical drive component and the housing wall of which is divided into a plurality of axially adjacent sections. The two axially terminal sections each form an axially removable cover of the housing. A support frame with frame-side bearing components...