ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,509, issued on March 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Drive unit for a vehicle" was invented by Janek Kraeuter (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Timo Kiekbusch (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Tobias Schlittenbauer (Tamm, Germany), Witold Techman (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Zhengyu Liu (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a drive unit (10) for a vehicle, comprising an electric machine (12) having a rotor shaft (14) and a transmission (16) having a transmission shaft (18). According to the invention, the rotor shaft (14) and the transmission shaft (18) are interlocking and coupled...