US Patent Issued to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP on June 24 for "Electric drive axle system with removable planetary gear assembly" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,877, issued on June 24, was assigned to DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electric drive axle system with removable planetary gear assembly" was invented by Eric M. Engerman (Plymouth, Mich.) and Mitchell R. Lawson (Perrysburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric drive axle of a vehicle are provided. An electric drive axle system includes, in one example, a gear train configured to rotationally attach to an electric motor-generator. The gear train includes an output shaft rotationally coupled to a first planetary gear assembly axially offset from an input shaft rotationally coupled...