US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Dec. 2 for "Drivetrain with infinitely and electrically variable transmission capabilities" (Texas, Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,774, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Drivetrain with infinitely and electrically variable transmission capabilities" was invented by Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas), Travis J. Miller (Austin, Texas) and Mark A. Davis (Opelika, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an electric drive train of a vehicle. In one example, a four-node planetary gear set is included in the electric drive train with a first motor coupled to a first input node and a second motor coupled to a second input node of the four-node planetary gear set. The drive train may ...