US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on April 15 for "Transmission and method for operation of the transmission" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,323, issued on April 15, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Transmission and method for operation of the transmission" was invented by William F. Waltz (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a transmission are provided. In one example, the transmission includes an input shaft with a first pair of gears that reside thereon, a first clutch positioned between the first pair of gears and designed to selectively rotationally couple a selected gear in the first pair of gears to the input shaft, and a layshaft with a second pair of gears fixedly coupled thereto. The transmissio...