US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on July 8 for "Electric drive device for a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor car, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,340, issued on July 8, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electric drive device for a motor vehicle, in particular for a motor car, and motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Philip Gansloser (Bad Ditzenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive device for a motor vehicle includes a housing, an electric engine having a rotor, a planetary transmission at least partially arranged in the housing, a first planetary gear set having a first sun gear connected to the rotor for conjoint rotation, a first planetary carrier, and a first annular gear, and a second ...