ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,228, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Motor vehicle transmission for an at least partially electrically driven motor vehicle" was invented by Johannes Kaltenbach (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Fabian Kutter (Kressbronn, Germany), Thomas Martin (Weissensberg, Germany), Johannes Gluckler (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Kai Borntrager (Langenargen, Germany) and Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle transmission (2) includes a first drive input shaft (9), a second drive input shaft (10), a first planetary gearset (P1), and a second planet...