ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,686, issued on May 6, was assigned to CHEVRON JAPAN LTD. (Minato-Ku, Japan).

"Lubricating oil compositions for automatic transmissions" was invented by Koichi Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Masami Fuchi (Makinohara, Japan), Naoya Sasaki (Omaezaki, Japan), Takahiro Nakagawa (Omaezaki, Japan) and Satoshi Ohta (Omaezaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to lubricating oil compositions useful for automatic transmissions, and particularly transmission oils for automotive automatic transmissions in battery electrical vehicles (BEVs), hybrid vehicles (HVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs). The lubrican...