US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on Dec. 2 for "Electric drive unit with parking gear assembly and operating method" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,748, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric drive unit with parking gear assembly and operating method" was invented by Gowrisankar Devaraj (Leamington Spa, Great Britain) and Cody Ott (Ida, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an electric drive unit. The electric drive unit includes, in one example, a first electric machine rotationally coupled to a first drive wheel via a first gear train and a second electric machine rotationally coupled to a second drive wheel via a second gear train. The electric drive unit further includes a disconnect clutch that is ...