US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on July 1 for "Device and method for providing operating energy for an auxiliary drive for an electric vehicle, and electric vehicle" (German, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,100, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Device and method for providing operating energy for an auxiliary drive for an electric vehicle, and electric vehicle" was invented by Frank Seemann (Euerbach, Germany), Andre Ehrsam (Bergrheinfeld, Germany), Martin Mach (Plzen, Czech Republic), Zbynek Stepan (Plzen, Czech Republic), Vladimir Dvorak (Plzen, Czech Republic), Gabriel Scherer (Deggenhausertal, Germany) and Matthias Engicht (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for providing operating energy for an auxiliary drive for an electric vehicle. The device ha...