US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 1 for "Drive device for an electrically drivable motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,088, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Drive device for an electrically drivable motor vehicle, and motor vehicle" was invented by Norbert Amann (Munich), David Bock (Carterton, Great Britain) and Christophe Lafaye (Vaterstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device has two electric drive machines for distributing the torque between two wheels of an axle of a motor vehicle and an inverter unit which is electrically connected to the drive machines for converting an electrical DC signal into a drive-machine-specific electrical AC signal. The two drive machines are arranged spaced a...