US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Automotive drivetrain gearbox including differential and planet gears with blades" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,854, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Automotive drivetrain gearbox including differential and planet gears with blades" was invented by Viktor Ruder (Furth, Germany), Andreas Rosenwald (Nuremberg, Germany) and Gunter Volkel (Puschendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly for a motor vehicle drivetrain includes a differential configured for driving a first output shaft and a second output shaft about a center axis and for allowing the first output shaft and the second output shaft to rotate about the center axis at different speeds, and planet ge...