ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,241, issued on July 22, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Axial shifter assembly for a transmission" was invented by Mahendra S. Patil (Pune, India), Thomas G. Ore (Cedar Falls, Iowa), Bradley A. Merrill (Dike, Iowa) and Roshan Sharma (Jaipur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial shifter assembly for a transmission. The axial shifter assembly includes a gear and a shifting collar arranged co-axially with each other. The shifting collar has at least one axial tooth projecting axially therefrom and is movable axially between an engaged position in which the at least one axial tooth drivingly engages with the gear an...