ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,328, issued on March 4, was assigned to Exedy GlobalParts Corp. (Belleville, Mich.).
"P2 module architecture" was invented by Kenneth Gerard Walega (Northville, Mich.) and Scott William Binder (South Lyon, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for power transmission between an output of a drive engine and an input of a transmission. The device includes a torque converter, an electric motor at least partially axially overlapping the torque converter, a damper system having an input adapted to be driven by the output of the drive engine, and a clutch coupled between the damper system and the torque converter and configured to c...