ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,134, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Transmission system and shifting method" was invented by Sandeep Janampally (Perrysburg, Ohio), Mohammed Yasin (Canton, Mich.) and James Allen (Atherstone, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a transmission. The transmission system operating method includes, in one example, re-estimating a time for each phase of an alternate gear shift in response to determining one or more conditions that are indicative of an operator's intent to implement the alternate gear shift. The method further includes performing on...