ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,588, issued on March 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electric axle drive for an at least partially electric motor vehicle having a switchable torque vectoring operation" was invented by Philip Gansloser (Bad Ditzenbach, Germany), Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany), Wolfgang Elser (Weil der Stadt, Germany), Ernst Walth (Heilbronn, Germany) and Martin Dengler (Marbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric axle drive for a motor vehicle includes a first electric engine, which has a first rotor, a second electric engine, which has a second rotor, an...