US Patent Issued to ArvinMeritor Technology on March 31 for "Drive axle system having an electric motor" (French, German, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,644, issued on March 31, was assigned to ArvinMeritor Technology LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Drive axle system having an electric motor" was invented by Cyril Kucharski (Saint-Etienne, France), Alexandre Moreton (Saint-Etienne, France), Felix Rudolph (Nuremberg, Germany), Marco Schramm (Nuremberg, Germany), I-Chao Chung (Troy, Mich.), Jerome Kunert (Warren, Mich.) and Dan S. Ursu (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive axle system comprising a support structure, a mounting plate, an electric motor module, a transmission module, and a wheel end assembly. The electric motor module extends from a first side of the mounting plat...