US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on Feb. 24 for "Symmetric 4 speed transmission with countershaft power-shift gearbox and input reduction gear set" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,221, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM (Bruges, Belgium).

"Symmetric 4 speed transmission with countershaft power-shift gearbox and input reduction gear set" was invented by Kurt Cattoor (Koolkerke, Belgium), Filip Van Raepenbusch (Bruges, Belgium) and Filip D. Schacht (Meulebeke, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a multi-ratio gear box and a countershaft power-shift transmission are provided. The system contains one or more electric motors coupled to a transmission housing in such that the electric motor does not exceed the highest point of the transmission. A first shaft may be coupled to ...