ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,013, issued on March 17, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Drive module assembly and drive module system including the same" was invented by Philip J. Francis (Lapeer, Mich.), Gregory L. Beyerlein (Clarkston, Mich.), Matthew A. Biederwolf (Fishers, Ind.), Arun Narayanan (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Aniruddha Chavan (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Firoz Ali S. Jafri (Troy, Mich.), Matthew Rahaim (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Jason Brown (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive module assembly includes a housing defining a housing interior for containing a lubricant. The housing interior is further defined ...