US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on Jan. 28 for "Multi-speed transmission and method for transmission operation" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,675, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Multi-speed transmission and method for transmission operation" was invented by Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium), Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium) and Filip Van Raepenbusch (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an electric drive unit are provided. A transmission system, in one example, includes a higher-lower range clutch assembly positioned downstream of a multi-speed clutch assembly and designed to shift the transmission system between a higher range operating mode and a lower range operating mode. The higher-lower ...