ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,209, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Drive device" was invented by Nobuhito Mori (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: a motor; a gear unit; a power conversion unit; a casing that includes a first chamber and a second chamber separated from each other by a partition wall; and a cooling system that circulates a thermal transfer medium to at least one of the first chamber and the second chamber, wherein the cooling system includes a partition wall cooling route that supplies the thermal transfer medium to the partition wall, and is configured such that a supply amount ...