US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for shifting a multi-speed transmission" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,120, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for shifting a multi-speed transmission" was invented by Charles A. Lubitz (Fond du Lac, Wis.), David M. Van Buren (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Matthew W. Snyder (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for shifting a multi-speed transmission of a marine propulsion device from a first gear being engaged to a second gear being engaged by selectively filling a first clutch and a second clutch with a fluid. The method includes operating the marine propulsion device with the second gear disengaged and controlling the second clutch...