ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,894, issued on March 25, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Drive device for a vehicle axle" was invented by Andreas Weber (Ingolstadt, Germany), Harald Gloede (Pforring, Germany), Frank Rothlingshofer (Ingolstadt, Germany), Korbinian Weber (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Christian Holzapfel (Lenting, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device for an electrically operated vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, with a drive unit in which an electric machine drives vehicle wheels via a gearbox. The electric machine is arranged transversely in the vehicle axle, and a stator housing of the electric machine is axially ext...