ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,814, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle drive device" was invented by Atsushi Tabata (Okazaki, Japan), Koichi Okuda (Toyota, Japan), Koji Takaira (Okazaki, Japan), Akinori Homan (Toyota, Japan), Yosuke Akiyama (Susono, Japan), Akira Ijichi (Odawara, Japan) and Kunihiko Usui (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle drive device, a second power source is connected to a first rotating element of a differential mechanism. The other output shaft of a first output shaft and a second output shaft is connected to a third rotating element so as to be disconnectable and connectable ...