ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,041, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Delaware Capital Formation Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Gearbox shift lockout system" was invented by Bobby Bradley (Jenks, Okla.), Daryl Toole (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Tony Jones (Bixby, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preventing shifting between a plurality of gear ratios in a mechanical gearset. An operating sensor detecting rotation of a moving component in the mechanical gearset, a shift solenoid controlling shifting among the plurality of gear ratios, and a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the shift solenoid and the operating sensor that prevents activation of th...