US Patent Issued to Magna Powertrain on March 4 for "Disconnecting differential side gear mechanism" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,321, issued on March 4, was assigned to Magna Powertrain Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Disconnecting differential side gear mechanism" was invented by Dusan Milacic (Aurora, Canada), Sean Steele (Aurora, Canada), Myron Samila (Aurora, Canada), Stephen Yang (Aurora, Canada) and David Gelfand (Aurora, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disconnectable differential assembly has a reduced axial length and a side gear disconnectable from an axle shaft via a clutch unit. Various components of the disconnect mechanism are axially aligned and concentric to reduce the axial length. An output hub splined on the axle shaft and is actuatable, via ...