ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,032, issued on April 29, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Drive assembly having an electric drive and transmission" was invented by Mark Schmidt (Konigswinter, Germany), Nikolaus Mayr (Bruneck, Italy), Sigmund Senoner (Bruneck, Italy), Ralf Mertens (Kaarst, Germany) and Patrick Hilber (St. Lorenzen, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly comprises at least an electric drive having a drive shaft, and a transmission having at least one input shaft, wherein a drive power of the electric drive can be transmitted to the input shaft via the drive shaft, and can be transmitted from the input sh...