ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,040, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GHSP Inc. (Holland, Mich.).
"Gear selection actuator for a shift-by-wire mechanism" was invented by Jack Zhao (Shanghai), Shavin Zhang (Shanghai), Gary Chen (Shanghai) and Zhengwei Ye (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shift actuator for a transmission includes a drive assembly coupled with a selector interface. A transmission selector operates between a plurality of transmission settings. A threaded actuator is rotationally operated by the drive assembly. A carriage linearly operates along the threaded actuator to define a plurality of actuator positions that correspond to the transm...