ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,031, issued on July 8, was assigned to Exedy GlobalParts Corp. (Belleville, Mich.).
"Compact P2 hybrid architecture" was invented by Kenneth Gerard Walega (Northville, Mich.) and Bryant David Grytzelius (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact P2 hybrid module for connecting an internal combustion engine to a transmission of a vehicle. The P2 module includes an input shaft, an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a torque converter having a front cover and a rear cover. The torque converter further including an impeller and a turbine coupled to one another so as to form a hydrodynamic circuit, and the turbine bei...