ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,680, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Drive device, control valve, and method for fabricating drive device" was invented by Lixin Wang (Zhejiang, China), Yun Wang (Zhejiang, China), Long Lin (Zhejiang, China) and Jianhua Chi (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive device includes a housing, a motor and a transmission assembly; the housing includes a first casing and a second casing; the first casing includes a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion; the second casing includes a third protruding portion; the transmission assembly inc...