US Patent Issued to enviolo on May 5 for "Hardened slot walls in a skew shifting continuous variable planetary system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,464, issued on May 5, was assigned to enviolo B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Hardened slot walls in a skew shifting continuous variable planetary system" was invented by Brad Pohl (Leander, Texas) and Siddhesh Ozarkar (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous variable planetary (CVP) system comprises a C2 carrier having a pattern of slots, the slots having one or more slot walls; a C1 carrier, at least one of the C2 carrier or C1 carrier being rotatable relative to the other; at least three planetary assemblies coupled between the C2 carrier and the C1 carrier, each planetary assembly including a planet, a planet axle, and an end...