ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,752, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).
"Transmission" was invented by Henrique Budacs (Gothenburg, Sweden), Eva Barrientos Blanco (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Adil Shabbir (Hisings Backa, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes a shifting fork and has first and second states that are selectable with the shifting fork. The shifting fork deactivates and activates a first element of the transmission, where the first state is provided when the first transmission element is activated, and to deact...