ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,101, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD (Glil-Yam, Israel).
"Wheel-drive assembly" was invented by Amit Aknin (Karkom, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel drive assembly for transferring propelling torque from a source shaft to a wheel, the source shaft receiving torque from a motion actuator. The wheel drive assembly includes a wheel-hub, adapted to have the wheel mounted thereon, the wheel-hub being arranged about a longitudinal axis, which is adapted to coincide with a rotation axis of the wheel. The wheel drive assembly further includes a drive axle and a constant velocity (CV) joint mounted onto an o...