ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,822, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Super elastic shape memory alloys based solid-state vibration isolation elements for electric drivetrains" was invented by Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nitish Jayaram Wagh (Novi, Mich.), Dennis J. Kinchen (Brighton, Mich.), Sam Mohamed Jomaa (Warren, Mich.) and Wojciech Edward Suchta (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration isolation component and vibration isolation system for a drivetrain as well as a method of isolation vibration in a drivetrain. At least one of a drivetrain bracket and a bushing inserted into ...