ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,970, issued on July 28, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive assembly" was invented by Sigmund Braun (Kusterdingen, Germany), Adolf Dillmann (Muensingen, Germany), Alexander Elter (Oftersheim, Germany), Daniel Hettinger (Reutlingen-Bronnweiler, Germany), Harald Hundt (Aichelberg, Germany), Julian Binder (Wannweil, Germany) and Stefan Holst (Reutlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly of a vehicle operable with muscular power and/or motor power. The drive assembly including a drive unit, a frame interface, wherein the drive unit is arranged at least partially between a first wall and a...