ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,090, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Drive system for vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Wanchao Zhao (Erlangen, Germany), Yejin Jin (Erlangen, Germany), Yue Li (Erlangen, Germany), Yawei Sun (Erlangen, Germany), Dongdong Wang (Erlangen, Germany), Xiaoxue Deng (Erlangen, Germany), Lefan Feng (Erlangen, Germany), Zhichao Chu (Erlangen, Germany), Xucan Chen (Erlangen, Germany), Yifan Gu (Erlangen, Germany) and Shu Zhang (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for a vehicle, and a vehicle. The drive system includes a housing, containing an electric motor...