US Patent Issued to AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING on July 14 for "Electric drive module" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,187, issued on July 14, was assigned to AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING INC. (Detroit).

"Electric drive module" was invented by James P. Downs (South Lyon, Mich.), David Crecelius (Cicero, Ind.), Jeffrey J. Ronning (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), Paul J. Valente (Berkley, Mich.) and John C. Morgante (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive unit having a stator body, a plurality of sets of field windings mounted to the stator body, a rotor received in the stator body and rotatable relative to the stator body, a plurality of phase terminals, and a current sensor assembly. Each of the phase terminals is coup...