US Patent Issued to ArvinMeritor Technology on March 31 for "Modular shifting system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,632, issued on March 31, was assigned to ArvinMeritor Technology LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Modular shifting system" was invented by Michael Hanneder (Troy, Mich.), Silvia Grunwald (Troy, Mich.), Christian Grosstesner (Troy, Mich.) and Johannes Bernoegger (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular shifting system is provided. The modular shifting system comprises a transmission including an input shaft and an output shaft, a transmission housing, gear trains accommodated in the transmission housing and constituting at least two shiftable gear ratios for establishing a transmission ratio between the output shaft and the input sha...