US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Transmission, a ring gear thereof, and a method of operating the same" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,671, issued on Feb. 3.

"Transmission, a ring gear thereof, and a method of operating the same" was invented by Martin Dale Ross (Salmo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring gear for a planetary gearset and a transmission having the same. The planetary gearset receives an input via a sun shaft to supply an output via a carrier in response to arresting of rotation of the ring gear around an axis. The ring gear includes a plurality of tooth surfaces and opposing tooth surfaces that are distributed around the axis. A pawl, while engaged with the tooth surfaces, is permitted to ratchet on the ring gear in a first angular direction ...