ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,136, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Parking lock system for a vehicle transmission" was invented by Tobias Dittrich (Tettnang, Germany), Tobias Miller (Waldburg, Germany) and Matthias List (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking lock system for motor vehicle transmissions has a locking pawl pivotable between an interlock position and a release position, and a first actuating element movable between a disengaged position and an engaged position, where movement of the first actuating element induces pivoting of the locking pawl. The system includes a se...