ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,887, issued on June 24, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany) and Flender Industriegetriebe GmbH (Penig, Germany).

"Scalable transmission housing, and housing series" was invented by Robert Lutzke (Leipzig, Germany), Andreas Fiedler (Waldenburg, Germany), Rocco Fischer (Chemnitz, Germany), Sascha Ruppert (Dresden, Germany), Jorg Buhl (Neukirchen, Germany), Andreas Angenendt (Bocholt, Germany) and Gerd Hauser (Zwickau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission housing includes a profile body configured to enclose transmission components, two side walls configured to enclose the transmission components in the prof...