ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,171, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Drive unit for a vehicle" was invented by Johannes Kaltenbach (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Thomas Martin (Weissenberg, Germany), Fabian Kutter (Kressbronn, Germany), Johannes Gluckler (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Kai Borntrager (Langenargen, Germany) and Stefan Renner (Bodman-Ludwigshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for a vehicle includes an electric machine and a manual gearbox with at least a first shift element, a second shift element, a third shift element and two planetary gear sets coupled to one another and each ha...