US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on March 18 for "Transmission for a vehicle, and power train having such a transmission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,145, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Transmission for a vehicle, and power train having such a transmission" was invented by Philip Dotschel (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Tamas Gyarmati (Bermatingen, Germany) and Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes an input shaft, two output shafts, at least three bearings and a differential. A first planetary gear set includes multiple gear set elements, and a second planetary gear set includes multiple gear set elements and is operatively connected to the first planetary gear set. A first o...