US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on March 24 for "Transmission and drive train for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,542, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Transmission and drive train for a motor vehicle" was invented by Philip Dotschel (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Tamas Gyarmati (Bermatingen, Germany), Thomas Riedisser (Sigmarszell, Germany), Hagen Doepfert (Lindau, Germany), Martin Brehmer (Tettnang, Germany) and Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission has a differential including a first planetary gear set having a first gear set element connected to an input shaft for conjoint rotation, a second gear set element at least indirectly connected to a fi...