ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,040, issued on March 25, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Electromechanical actuator cartridge" was invented by Sakthikumar Rathakrishnan (Perrysburg, Ohio), Scott R. Green (Maumee, Ohio), Mark W. Leber (Holland, Ohio), Justin Hall (Ottawa Lake, Mich.) and Michael D. Cook (Holland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an actuator cartridge. The actuator cartridge includes an actuation assembly that is rotationally coupled to an actuation motor and a sleeve. The sleeve includes a shift device groove that circumferentially extends around the sleeve and is configured to axiall...