US Patent Issued to AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Electric drive unit with motor assembly isolated from beaming loads transmitted through housing assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,703, issued on March 17, was assigned to AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING INC. (Detroit).

"Electric drive unit with motor assembly isolated from beaming loads transmitted through housing assembly" was invented by James P. Downs (South Lyon, Mich.) and Paul J. Valente (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive unit having an electric motor, a differential assembly, a transmission, which transmits rotary power between the electric motor and the differential assembly, a pair of axle shafts, which are drivingly coupled to output members of the differential assembly, and a housing assembly in which the electric motor, ...