ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,272, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Drive assembly" was invented by Daniel Schwenk (Dornstetten, Germany), Adolf Dillmann (Muensingen, Germany), Alexander Elter (Oftersheim, Germany), Christoph Zimmermann (Reutlingen, Germany), Christoph Schumacher (Dusslingen, Germany), Daniel Hettinger (Reutlingen-Bronnweiler, Germany), Harald Hundt (Aichelberg, Germany), Julian Binder (Wannweil, Germany), Peter Kimmich (Wannweil, Germany), Quoc-Dat Nguyen (Steinenbronn, Germany), Sigmund Braun (Neckartenzlingen, Germany), Stefan Holst (Reutlingen, Germany) and Tobias Landenberger (Schorndorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S....