ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,756, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CNH INDUSTRIAL ITALIA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).
"Dual clutch transmission architecture for agricultural vehicles" was invented by Luigi Gioffre (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures, systems, and methods for a dual clutch transmission, including an input shaft, output shaft, input stage, gear ratio stage, range gear ratio stage, forward clutch, and rearward clutch. The dual clutch transmission includes an intermediate shaft between the gear ratio stage and the range gear ratio stage and carrying a third plurality of gears to engage a first and second plurality of gears to prov...