US Patent Issued to Edscha Engineering, Bayerische Motoren Werke on Jan. 13 for "Activatable drive device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,082, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Edscha Engineering GmbH (Remscheid, Germany) and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Activatable drive device" was invented by Jorg Dornen (Remscheid, Germany), Jochen Bals (Remscheid, Germany) and Enrico Horn (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device, in particular a spindle drive for a vehicle panel, including a housing, a drive element which extends along a drive axis, an output element which extends along an output axis, and a coupling device which is arranged between the drive element and the output element which has at least one first coupling element for coupling the drive...