US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Oct. 28 for "Electrically driveable drive axle for an all-terrain utility vehicle, and utility vehicle" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,175, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Electrically driveable drive axle for an all-terrain utility vehicle, and utility vehicle" was invented by Maximilian Winkler (Schollnach, Germany), Alexander Muhlbauer (Windorf, Germany), Florian Felbinger (Kassel, Germany), Willi Rometsch (Kassel, Germany), Franz Reitinger (Esternberg, Austria), Johannes Auburger (Regenstauf, Germany), Ulrich Solka (Fuerstenzell, Germany) and Hendrik Frisch (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically driveable drive axle (19) is disclosed for an all-terrain utility vehicle. The first drive...