ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,769, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Noise reduction in a transmission of an electric vehicle drive" was invented by Norbert Schroeder (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for controlling an electric driving machine of a motor vehicle are provided. A rotor shaft of the electric driving machine is connected to an output shaft of the motor vehicle via a geared transmission. During a load alteration of the driving machine, a shock torque load is applied by the driving machine prior to a changeover from one flank to another in the geared transmission in order to adjust the r...