US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 4 for "Power transmission device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,535, issued on March 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Power transmission device" was invented by Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Naoki Itazu (Nagoya, Japan), Shinichiro Ishikawa (Toyota, Japan) and Masaya Michishita (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first drive unit having a first drive source, a first transmission connected to the first drive source and the driving force to be transmitted, a second drive source, and a second transmission connected to the second drive source and the driving force to be transmitte...