ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,928, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Gear unit with built-in parking lock unit" was invented by Son Duy Nguyen (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear unit to be used in combination with a power source having a hollow output shaft, is provided with a differential gear set having a rotation axis in common with the output shaft, a counter shaft fixedly including a first gear in mesh with the output shaft, and a second gear in mesh with the differential gear set. The first gear and the second gear constitutes a reduction gear set, a housing including an outer wall partin...