US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on July 8 for "Systems and methods for an electric axle" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,009, issued on July 8, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for an electric axle" was invented by Steven G. Slesinski (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jeffrey M. David (Cedar Park, Texas) and Jeremy M. Frenznick (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an electric axle assembly. In one example an assembly is provided comprising, a first axle, an electric motor directly mounted to the first axle, a transmission gear train coupling the electric motor to an interaxle output shaft, and a plurality of clutches for selectively coupling the electric motor and...