ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,708, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Drive assembly including seamless shifting mechanism" was invented by Luke Bear (Chardon, Ohio) and Joshuah Fisher (Canton, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly for a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a differential configured for driving a first axle and a second axle while allowing the first axle and the second axle to rotate about a center axis at different speeds than each other. The drive assembly also includes a first gear set continuously drivingly connected to the differential for inputting a first torqu...