US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 8 for "Method and control unit for operating a parking lock system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,354, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and control unit for operating a parking lock system" was invented by Florian Muhlfeld (Kurnach, Germany), Matthias Muller (HaBfurt, Germany), Pierre Mesnier (Rothlein, Germany), Ramazan Uzunkaya (Bergrheinfeld, Germany) and Ulrich Quell (Fulda, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a parking lock system (10) with a parking interlock gear (11) is provided. The parking lock system (10) also includes a parking pawl (12) insertable with an insertion section (20) in one of recesses (16) of the parking interlock gear (11...