ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,096, issued on May 26.

"Vehicle shifting mechanism" was invented by Kuo-Hsin Su (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Ta-Yu Su (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hsun-I Lee (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle shifting mechanism includes a transmission box, a gear-shifting driving unit and a gearshift lever. Through electrical connection between a manual switch and the gear-shifting driving unit, the operation of controlling the forward or reverse gear is carried out, so that the gear-shifting driving unit drives the gearshift lever to produce the action of pushing down the gear or pushing up the gear. Through an auto swi...