ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,023, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control device of vehicle drive device" was invented by Keiichirou Kusabe (Kariya, Japan), Kohei Tsuda (Kariya, Japan) and Bumpei Nakaya (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution differential gear mechanism includes a first rotation element drivingly connected to input member, a second rotation element drivingly connected to output member, and a third rotation element drivingly connected to rotary electric machine. When rotation speed difference between rotation speed of the second and first rotation elements become equal to or less than synchron...