ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,905, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Electric vehicle" was invented by Osami Ohno (Aki-gun, Japan), Satoshi Maruyama (Aki-gun, Japan), Hiroshi Tanaka (Aki-gun, Japan), Kei Yonemori (Aki-gun, Japan), Akihiro Furukawa (Aki-gun, Japan), Li-Hsuan Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chih-Yuan Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Iou-Uei Jang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To arrange a power unit, an electric power conversion unit, and engine-related components compactly, a drive motor, a reduction drive, a generator, and an engine body are integrally arranged in this order in a vehicle width dire...