US Patent Issued to Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Hybrid automated manual transmission" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,473, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies LLC (Galesburg, Mich.).

"Hybrid automated manual transmission" was invented by Graeme Andrew Jackson (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid automated manual transmission includes an input shaft configured to be connected to a prime mover by an input clutch. At least one splitter gear connectable to the input shaft. A main shaft is concentric with the input shaft and includes at least two main shaft gears connectable to the main shaft. At least one countershaft includes at least one first driven gears drivingly engaged with the...