ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,867, issued on June 23, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Composite driving mechanism for vehicle and vehicle equipped with the same" was invented by Yang Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite driving mechanism for a vehicle including: a drive device for providing a driving force; a lifting drive assembly to transmit the driving force to a lifting mechanism; a cinching drive assembly to transmit the driving force to a cinching mechanism; and a switch assembly to engage with the drive device and selectively switch between a lifting drive position, in which the switch assembly only transmits th...