ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,152, issued on July 29, was assigned to VALEO EMBRAYAGES (Amiens, France).
"Blocking mechanism" was invented by Antonin Cheron (Cergy Pontoise, France), Fabien Diascorn (Cergy Pontoise, France) and Christophe Mollier (Cergy Pontoise, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blocking mechanism including a transmission casing and a movable pawl having a locking finger. The movable pawl is pivotably mounted in a plane about a pivot axis on the transmission casing between a locking position in which the locking finger is engaged in the locking recess and a release position in which the locking finger is disengaged from the locking recess....