ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,649, issued on March 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive device for a vehicle axle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Philip Gansloser (Bad Ditzenbach, Germany) and Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive device for a vehicle axle includes first and second electric engines having first and second rotors, respectively. A transmission has a first and second input shafts arranged coaxially with the first and second rotors, respectively, and an output shaft arranged in parallel with the first and second input shafts. An axle dr...