US Patent Issued to Allison Transmission on May 13 for "Switch assembly with feedback signal for fault detection" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,230, issued on May 13, was assigned to Allison Transmission Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Switch assembly with feedback signal for fault detection" was invented by James D. Shaw (Carmel, Ind.) and Aaron Ransdell (Brownsburg, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch assembly configured to determine when input received from a switch is caused by proper actuation of the switch and should be accepted, or is caused instead by a fault in the switch or in the intervening circuitry and should be ignored and/or reported. The switch assembly optionally includes a logic circuit that is electrically connected to the switch. The logic circuit may pro...