ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,257, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Transmission arrangement with a shielding shell and motor vehicle with the transmission arrangement" was invented by Claudius Flogaus (Markdorf, Germany), Julia Klein (Langenargen, Germany) and Martin Kibler (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission assembly for a motor vehicle includes a transmission housing, a spur gearing in the housing having an input gear and an output gear, which are connected to one another, a differential gearing in the housing, wherein the differential gearing has a differential cage con...