US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on June 23 for "Motor vehicle transmission for an at least partially electrically driven motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,970, issued on June 23, 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 (3) includes a drive shaft (6), an output shaft (7), and a first planetary gear set (P1), a second planetary gear set (P2) and a t...