ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,150, issued on March 18, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Transmission for a vehicle drive train" was invented by Tamas Gyarmati (Bermatingen, Germany), Philip Dotschel (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Matthias Reisch (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission (1) for a drive train of a vehicle (100) includes an input shaft (2), a first output shaft (3), a second output shaft (4) and a differential arranged in power flow between the input shaft (2) and the two output shafts (3, 4). A first output torque is transmittable onto the first output shaft (3) by the first planetary gea...