US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 3 for "Vehicle differential and welding" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,663, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle differential and welding" was invented by Cheonjae Bahk (Rochester, Mich.), Peng Shen (Troy, Mich.), Wenying Yang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Kaushik Kalita (Karnataka, India), Pankaj Kumar Jha (Troy, Mich.) and Lala Ram Patel (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential for a vehicle includes: a carrier: having a radially outer surface; and being made of a first material having a first ductility; a ring gear: having a radially inner surface that abuts the radially outer surface of the carrier; and being made of a second mat...