ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,618, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZF Automotive UK Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).

"Dual motor drive assembly" was invented by Russell Wilson-Jones (Stratford upon Avon, Great Britain), Christos Prevezianos (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Ari Akbar Hassan Al-Jaf (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual motor drive assembly comprises a housing, a shaft rotatably mounted with respect to the housing, a first gear connected to and configured to rotate with the shaft, and first and second motors, each having an output driving a respective output gear, the output gears being engaged with the first gear, in whi...