ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,497, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Hydraulic system of a power transmission, with integration of an actuating function and a lubricating and/or cooling function" was invented by Matteo Melchiorri (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic system of a power transmission has a reservoir, a pump and, downstream of the latter, a junction point, from which a first and a second branch start; the first branch is configured to perform a cooling and/or lubricating function on a part of the transmission; the second branch performs an actuating function by means of a hydraulic actuator; the...