US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Sept. 1 for "Drive device for a motor vehicle drive train of an electric vehicle" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,480, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Drive device for a motor vehicle drive train of an electric vehicle" was invented by Tobias Brilka (Iggensbach, Germany), Franz Reitinger (Esternberg, Austria), Alexander Muhlbauer (Windorf, Germany), Andreas Pfeffer (Viechtach, Germany) and Tobias Wittrock (Passau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a drive device (7) for a motor vehicle drive train of an electric vehicle. At least one electric machine (14) is provided as the drive machine on the output side of which a downstream transmission (18) is connected. In ...