US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on July 8 for "Electric continuously variable transmission and methods therefor" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,032, issued on July 8, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Electric continuously variable transmission and methods therefor" was invented by Joachim Van Dingenen (Drongen, Belgium), Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium) and Filip Van Raepenbusch (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, an assembly is provided comprising a transmission at least partially enclosed in a housing. The transmission includes a planetary gear set coupled to a multispeed sub-transmission. The planetary gear set is configured to be coupled to a first electric machine and an internal combustion engine on a first side, and con...