US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on March 4 for "Axle assembly for an electric vehicle, vehicle, and method for operating an axle assembly" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,308, issued on March 4, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Axle assembly for an electric vehicle, vehicle, and method for operating an axle assembly" was invented by Peter Petrov (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Hakan Lennstrom (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an axle assembly for an electric vehicle. The axle assembly comprises a first electric machine, a second electric machine, and a spur gear unit comprising at least one spur gear stage and a differential gear unit. The at least one spur gear stage is drivingly coupled to the differential gear unit. Moreover, an output shaft...