ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,136, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Drive unit for a vehicle" was invented by Johannes Kaltenbach (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Thomas Martin (Weissensberg, Germany), Alexander Thorwart (Langenargen, Germany) and Michael PreuB (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit has first and second electrical machines arranged axially parallel, a manual gearbox arranged axially parallel to the electrical machines, a differential, a drive shaft, an output shaft, and a positive-locking shift unit having a first shift element, a second shift element, and a sliding sl...