ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,908, issued on March 25, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive unit for an electric vehicle, pulse inverter module, system and vehicle" was invented by Timijan Velic (Weissach, Germany), Patrick Fuchs (Leonberg, Germany) and Maximilian Barkow (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit for an electric vehicle, including an electric machine, a gear mechanism, a housing, wherein the electric machine and the gear mechanism are arranged in an interior of the housing, and a receiving apparatus for a pulse inverter module, wherein the housing has an opening and the receiving apparatus...