US Patent Issued to hofer powertrain innovation on June 17 for "Compact block-like electric drive with an inverter block and parking lock" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,489, issued on June 17, was assigned to hofer powertrain innovation GmbH (Nurtingen, Germany).

"Compact block-like electric drive with an inverter block and parking lock" was invented by Severin Schneider (Tennenbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive block, i.e. a block-like electric drive, includes two drives for driving respective wheels. Each of the two drives can be driven by a separate electric machine, i.e. by a first electric machine and a second electric machine, respectively. The drive block further includes an inverter block and a parking lock. The inverter block and the parking lock can be situated on differ...