ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,587, issued on March 11, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, Germany), Jonathan Zeibig (Aalen, Germany), Philip Gansloser (Bad Ditzenbach, Germany), Carsten Gitt (Stuttgart, Germany) and Klaus Riedl (Tubingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a motor vehicle includes a first electric machine having a first rotor, a differential having a differential input shaft and a first differential output shaft and a second differential output shaft. The two dif...