ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,017, issued on July 8, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Systems and method for an electric powertrain" was invented by Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium), Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium) and Filip Van Raepenbusch (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for a transmission system. In one example, a multi-speed transmission includes an input section comprising a plurality of input speed reduction gearsets, an intermediate section comprising a plurality of clutches and gears configured to generate different speeds, and an output section comprising a high clutch and a low clutch, where...