ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,637, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Gear arrangement, power take-off module and vehicle gearbox" was invented by Laszlo Mikulas (Noszvaj, Hungary) and Pal Csaba Nemeth (Eger, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearwheel arrangement (1) for the quieter transmission of a mechanical rotary power, the gearwheel arrangement (1) having a first intermediate gearwheel (2) and a second intermediate gearwheel (3), where the first intermediate gearwheel (2) and the second intermediate gearwheel (3) can rotate together about a common rotation axis (10), where at least one of the interm...