ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,815, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Trentino, Italy).

"Electric vehicle (EV) system and operating method" was invented by Pradip Jasud (Pune, India), Shailesh Dalvi (Pune, India) and Idris Poonawala (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an electric vehicle (EV). The EV system includes an electric drive axle that includes a first electric motor configured to transfer mechanical power to a first drive wheel, a second electric motor configured to transfer mechanical power to a second drive wheel, and a motor coupling clutch configured to selectively rotationally couple the first elec...