ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,180, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Super ATV LLC (Madison, Ind.).
"Multiple-gear-ratio portal gear box" was invented by Jordan E. Stephan (Hanover, Ind.), Justin L. Eaton (Madison, Ind.) and Jason T. Stewart (Harvest, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portal gear box assembly effective to lift and change the gear ratio of a wheel of an off-road vehicle includes a housing, an input gear sub-assembly, an output gear sub-assembly, and an idler gear sub-assembly effective for linking the input gear to the output gear. The input gear sub-assembly includes an input gear, the output gear sub-assembly includes an output gear, and th...