ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,791, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a motor vehicle, includes a housing, an electric motor with a rotor rotationally connected with a rotor shaft, a planetary gearset, and an axle drive. The planetary gearset includes exactly one sun gear and exactly one planetary carrier. The rotor shaft is connected in a rotationally fixed manner with the sun gear. The electric drive system includes a coup...