ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,286, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Transmission series" was invented by Simon Hetmaniok (Witten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission series has a first transmission and a second transmission. The first transmission and the second transmission each have a respective input shaft, a housing, a supporting structure fixed in the housing, and at least two bearings by means of which the input shaft is mounted rotatably in the respective supporting structure. The at least two bearings of the first transmission are of the same first design and the at least two bearings ...