ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,645, issued on April 22, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive assembly and vehicle having such a drive assembly" was invented by Peter Dengler (Stuttgart, Germany) and Robert Hecht (Korb, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly (10) comprising a first electric machine (12) having a first drive shaft (14), a second electric machine (16) having a second drive shaft (18), an output shaft (20), wherein the first drive shaft (14) and the second drive shaft (18) are coupled or couplable to the output shaft (20) in such a way that the output shaft (20) can be driven by the first drive shaft (14) and/...