US Patent Issued to Sigma Powertain on July 29 for "Method for operating clutch elements of a transmission" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,124, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sigma Powertain Inc. (Livonia, Mich.).

"Method for operating clutch elements of a transmission" was invented by Daniel E Knieper (Clarkston, Mich.), Graham Scott Russell (Clarkston, Mich.), R William Davis (Orion, Mich.) and John W Kimes (Clermont, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method calculates a time for which a force is to be applied to a strut to have the strut lockingly engage a notch of a notch plate. The notch plate has a plurality of notches equidistantly spaced about a surface of the notch plate at a predetermined distance from each other. The method begins by measuring a rotat...