ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,239, issued on April 14, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Drive apparatus and electric vehicle" was invented by Xuejuan Kong (Dongguan, China), Yang Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Xin Wu (Xi'an, China) and Yankun Xu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive apparatus and an electric vehicle are provided to implement fault monitoring functions of two control chips when one watchdog chip is configured. The drive apparatus includes a first control chip, a second control chip, a first drive circuit, a second drive circuit, a watchdog chip, and a reset shutdown circuit. The first drive ci...