ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,760, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DONGFENG DANA AXLE Co. LTD. (Hubei, China).

"Integrated drive gear motor assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Ning Guo (Xiangyang, China), Shengli Hu (Xiangyang, China), Kaishuo Zhang (Xiangyang, China) and Minghan Tang (Xiangyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated active gear motor assembly may have a housing with a stator and a rotor located within the housing. The assembly may also have a motor output shaft located within the stator with a gear portion of the motor output shaft extending out of the housing. A drive gear may be connected to the gear portion of the shaft. T...