ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,097, issued on July 1, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Hybrid drive module for a motor vehicle" was invented by Angelika Ebert (Schonungen, Germany), Monika RoBner (Donnersdorf, Germany), Wolfgang GroBpietsch (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Wolfgang Kundermann (Dornburg-Dorndorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid drive module for a motor vehicle having a housing, an electric machine with a rotatable rotor and a stator fixed with respect to rotation relative to the housing, and a clutch. A first half of the clutch is connected to a hub, and a second half of the clutch is connected to the roto...