ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,921, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Systems and devices for controlling sensing plate lash in a lock detection mechanism for electronic locking differentials" was invented by Ram Palaskar (Pune, India), Prajwal More (Pune, India), Piyush Dube (Nagpur, India) and Andrew N. Edler (Homer, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an electronic locking differential gear mechanism having a lock detection mechanism for sensing and indication of a locked and unlocked state of the locking mechanism. The electronic locking differential gear mechanism includes an electron...