US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Compact electric drive units and vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,716, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Compact electric drive units and vehicles" was invented by Chi Teck Lee (Novi, Mich.), James M. Hart (Belleville, Mich.), Christopher Michael Kaminski (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Favian Zavala (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compact electric drive units and vehicles with such drive units are provided. An exemplary electric drive unit includes an electric motor configured to provide an electric motor torque; an input differential configured to split the electric motor torque into a first path and a second path; a final drive gear on e...