ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,009, issued on March 17, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).
"Dual-clutch transmission" was invented by Martin Stockinger (Zell am Pettenfirst, Austria), Stefan Krenn (Linz, Austria), Andreas Matheis (Passau, Germany), Thomas Gadermayr (Taiskirchen, Austria) and Johannes Wurm (Wallern an der Trattnach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission for a vehicle (20) includes: an input shaft (122) for connection to an internal combustion engine (52) of the vehicle (20); a gear (605) shaft (122, 199, 400A, 400B) selectively operatively connected to the input shaft (122); a clutch selectively actuata...