US Patent Issued to Means Industries on Sept. 16 for "Clutch assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,337, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Means Industries Inc. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Clutch assembly" was invented by Spencer Kane (Chesaning, Mich.) and Joshua D Hand (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch assembly includes a first coupling assembly and a second coupling assembly. The first and second coupling assemblies have a common input member wherein the first coupling assembly couples/decouples the input member and a first output member, and the second coupling assembly couples/decouples the input member and a second output member. In the first position, the first coupling assembly decouples the input member and...