ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,128, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Differential gear mechanism" was invented by Koki Kamakura (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This differential gear mechanism is provided with a case member having a cylindrical housing portion and held so as to be rotatable about a center axis of the housing portion, a pinion gear provided inside the housing portion so as to be revolvable about a center axis of the housing portion, and a side gear to which a torque is transmitted from the pinion gear and an output shaft is connected, and a side gear is provided with a pinion gear. A meshing ge...