US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on July 1 for "Heavy-duty vehicle maintenance tool and a method for manufacturing such a tool" (Swedish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,847, issued on July 1, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Heavy-duty vehicle maintenance tool and a method for manufacturing such a tool" was invented by Yuan Zhong (Danderyd, Sweden), Lennart Olausson (Torslanda, Sweden) and Denis Goyet (Rillieux la Pape, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heavy-duty vehicle maintenance tool applicable to mount or remove a component from a gearbox has a cylindrical shape with a predetermined extension along a central axis. The tool further including a cylindrical wall enclosing an inner cylindrical cavity and connecting an open first end and a closed second end. The tool ha...