ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,892, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Motor vehicle transmission for an at least partially electrically driven motor vehicle" was invented by Johannes Kaltenbach (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Thomas Martin (Weissensberg, Germany), Fabian Kutter (Kressbronn, Germany), Kai Borntrager (Langenargen, Germany), Johannes Gluckler (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle transmission (3) includes a drive shaft (6), an output shaft (7), and a first planetary gear set (P1), a second planetary gear set (P2), and a ...