ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,570, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Allison Transmission Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Transmission systems to control heat exchangers to manage transmission sump temperature" was invented by Jeffrey E. Shultz (Zionsville, Ind.) and Bruno Re (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transmission systems, control systems for vehicles, and methods of operating vehicles are disclosed herein. A transmission system for a vehicle includes a transmission and a heat exchanger. The transmission is configured to receive rotational power supplied by a drive unit and provide the rotational power to a load in use of the transmission system. The he...