ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,738, issued on May 20, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric drive unit for a motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Schilder (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Jonathan Zeibig (Aalen, Germany), Tobias Haerter (Stuttgart, 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 unit has a first electric engine with a first rotor, a second electric engine which with a second rotor, and a gear unit having a differential, which has exactly three first shafts arranged coaxially to each other. The three first shafts are a sum shaft to which the fir...