ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,528, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Integrated two-wheel drive module and method of joining integrated two-wheel drive module and cabin" was invented by Danghee Park (Seoul, South Korea) and DaeJin Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated two-wheel drive module includes a module body, wherein each side portion of the module body extends upward to define a space and an upper end of each side portion extends to one side to define a shoulder portion, a battery and a controller disposed in the module body, a pair of wheels mo...