ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,486, issued on March 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Hydraulic transmission unit, particularly for deep-sea use" was invented by Markus Kubacki (Wuerzburg, Germany), Alexandre Orth (Hettstadt, Germany) and Gottfried Hendrix (Gemuenden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a transmission unit having (i) a housing for the fluid-tight encapsulation of at least one part of the transmission unit, (ii) a rack and pinion transmission which is arranged in the housing and has at least one gear rack, (iii) a hydraulic drive system, which is arranged in the housing, has at least one displa...