ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,641, issued on March 11, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Automotive intermediate shaft transmission arrangement" was invented by Gerhard Spengler (Jettingen, Germany), Simon Martin (Muehlacker, Germany), Andre Geisser (Jettingen, Germany) and Dmitry Mezhevitin (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive intermediate shaft transmission arrangement includes a rotatably and floatingly supported intermediate shaft body which supports an external input toothing and an external output toothing rotationally fixed. The input toothing is oppositely angled with respect to the output toot...