US Patent Issued to Allison Transmission on Aug. 25 for "Slip speed monitoring of a multi-speed planetary transmission" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,485, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Allison Transmission Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Slip speed monitoring of a multi-speed planetary transmission" was invented by Tristan Cox (Whitestown, Ind.), Randall S. Conn (Avon, Ind.), Lian Yu (Whitestown, Ind.) and Joel Taina (Pittsboro, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least eight forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gear...