US Patent Issued to Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies on Sept. 9 for "System, method, and apparatus for operating a high efficiency, high output transmission" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,861, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies LLC (Galesburg, Mich.).

"System, method, and apparatus for operating a high efficiency, high output transmission" was invented by Thomas Connolly (Portage, Mich.), Joseph Paul Furner (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sipei Chen (Novi, Mich.), Jeff Hawarden (Rossendale, Great Britain), Ian Daniel McKenzie (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Christopher DeBoer (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaf...