ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,448, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kongsberg Automotive Holding 2 AS (Kongsberg, Norway).
"Gear shift actuator" was invented by Christer Kobbevik Oldeide (Kongsberg, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear shift actuator includes a linear drive assembly having a supported rotary member that is axially unmovable, an electric motor for rotating the rotary member, and a driven component engaged by the rotary member to transmit rotary movement into a linear axial movement of the driven component to drive a shift fork between a neutral and a first gear engaged position. The assembly includes wherein the rotary member has a hollo...