ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,128, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Oil duct part to be mounted in a transmission, and transmission comprising an oil duct part" was invented by Csaba Hegedus (Erd, Hungary), Manfred Saretzki (Stuttgart, Germany), Peter Zold (Biatorbagy, Hungary) and Tobias Schlittenbauer (Tamm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil duct part to be mounted in a transmission, particularly a motor vehicle transmission, includes a conduit with an inlet port and an outlet port, at least one oil collection region for collecting oil conducted through the conduit, and at least one drain for oil from the...