US Patent Issued to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP on Sept. 22 for "Transmission shifting system and method" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,549, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP LLC (Maumee, Ohio).

"Transmission shifting system and method" was invented by Rohit Koli (Toledo, Ohio), Nathan Smith (Toledo, Ohio) and Mohammed Yasin (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for adjusting operation of a dog clutch actuator are shown. The systems and methods may base dog clutch actuator adjustment on a roll-off time that describes when reduction of propulsion source torque has produced a corresponding reduction in dog clutch torque that will allow the dog clutch to be disengaged with minimal effort."

The patent was f...