US Patent Issued to AUDI on June 17 for "Drive train and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,832, issued on June 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Drive train and motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Arbesmeier (Allmannstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive train for a motor vehicle has an electrical machine and a transmission, the drive shaft of which is coupled to the rotor of the electrical machine, wherein the drive train comprises a coupling device which is adapted to couple the drive shaft of the transmission to a power takeoff shaft of the transmission in order to block a rotation of the power takeoff shaft."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/868,541.

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