ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,912, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Planetary gearset and vehicle driveline" was invented by Thomas Bergmann (Lappersdorf, Germany), Thomas Waim (Grafenau, Germany), Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Martin Weiss (Markdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gearset (9) has a planetary carrier (11) and a plurality of planetary gearwheel axles arranged axially offset relative to one another and on which planetary gearwheels (13) are mounted to rotate. A first carrier section (14) is arranged at a first axial end of the planetary gearwheel axles and a...