ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,777, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Drive including a transmission driven by an electric motor" was invented by Markus Lutz (Oberhausen-Rheinhausen, Germany), Ingo Schutterle (Bruchsal, Germany), Torsten Koker (Stutensee, Germany), Markus Woppermann (Karlsbad, Germany) and Sascha Haller (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive includes a transmission driven by an electric motor. A drive shaft of the transmission has multiple eccentric regions with differing widths in the axial direction, in which the high points thereof are offset relative to one another in the cir...