ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,707, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ZHE JIANG SIEKON TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Jiaxing, China).

"Auxiliary driving mechanism of new energy vehicle" was invented by Wenyong Yu (Zhejiang, China), Yang Zhu (Zhejiang, China), Chao Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Fengli Huang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an auxiliary driving mechanism of a new energy vehicle, including a main motor, a reduction gear, a differential gear, an auxiliary motor, and a multi-speed gearbox. The multi-speed gearbox includes a housing, an auxiliary drive shaft, an intermediate shaft, and a connecting shaft, the auxiliary drive s...