ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,096, issued on July 1, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Torque transmitting device" was invented by Benjamin Vogtle (Weingarten, Germany), Thorsten Krause (Buhl, Germany), Stephan Maienschein (Baden-Baden, Germany) and Peter Wahl (Worth-Maximiliansau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque transmitting device for a drive train for transmitting an input torque provided by at least one drive element to an output element. The device including: an electric motor having a stator and a rotor which can be rotated relative to said stator for providing a further drive torque; a separating...