ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,886, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive device for a motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive device for a motor vehicle includes an electric motor for driving the motor vehicle and a planetary gear set which has a ring gear and is disposed in a transmission housing formed from a die-cast material. The transmission housing has a moulded internal toothing as the first toothing into which a corresponding external toothing disposed on the ring gear engages as the second toothing such that the ring gear i...