ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,001, issued on June 16, was assigned to T-MAX (HANGZHOU) TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Vehicle winch and vehicle having vehicle winch" was invented by Hangfei Yu (Zhejiang, China), Haojia Chen (Zhejiang, China), Haibin Chen (Zhejiang, China), Shipei Yao (Zhejiang, China), Xuebo Hu (Zhejiang, China) and Senbiao Ge (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle winch includes a motor assembly, a rope drum assembly, and a reducing gear assembly. The rope drum assembly defines a drum cavity extending in an axial direction of the rope drum assembly, and a part of the motor assembly is arranged in the drum cavity. The ...