ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,453, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZF Automotive UK Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).
"Dual motor drive assembly" was invented by Russell Wilson-Jones (Stratford upon Avon, Great Britain), Mark Anthony Wilkes (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Aleksejs Semjonovs (Snohomish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual motor drive assembly comprising a housing, a shaft rotatably mounted with respect to the housing, a first gear connected to and configured to rotate with the shaft, first and second motors, each having an output driving a respective output gear, the output gears being engaged with the first gear, an allocation arrangemen...