ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,328, issued on July 1, was assigned to Transgo LLC (El Monte, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for improving the operation of transmissions for motor vehicles" was invented by David A Hardin (El Monte, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hydraulic circuitry of the factory installed automotive automatic transmission of the General Motors Corporation identified as the Allison 1000 and 2000 Series is modified to include a new return spring to decrease clutch pressure and mainline pressure so as not to exceed a predetermined pressure to reduce the time to complete an upshift, to replace the main regulator valve spring to increase main ...