ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,962, issued on March 18, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).

"Systems for axle arm" was invented by Nicola Tessaro (Arco, Italy), Davide Deimichei (Arco, Italy), Efrem Rusconi (Arco, Italy) and Gianluca Terrasi (Arco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for an axle arm including a lubricant reservoir and a driveshaft. In one example, system may include a lubricant reservoir of an axle arm comprising a fill line at an edge of a driveshaft, wherein a central axis of the lubricant reservoir is misaligned with a central axis of the driveshaft."

The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2021, under Application...