ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,660, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Drive module assembly" was invented by Mitsuru Ishihara (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Calahan B. Campton (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive module assembly for use in a vehicle includes a housing defining a housing interior, and an electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The drive module assembly also includes a differential rotatably coupled to the rotor, a first input shaft rotatably coupled to the differential, a second input shaft rotatably coupled to the differential, a first counter shaft rotatably coupled to the first inp...