US Patent Issued to Hoerbiger Antriebstechnik Holding on March 17 for "Electromagnetically shiftable positive engagement clutch" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,990, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hoerbiger Antriebstechnik Holding GmbH (Schongau, Germany).

"Electromagnetically shiftable positive engagement clutch" was invented by Jurgen Binder (Schongau, Germany), Peter Echtler (Schongau, Germany), Andreas Dempfle (Schongau, Germany), Werner Fuerguth (Schongau, Germany), Wolfgang Voelk (Schongau, Germany), Oleg Butorin (Schongau, Germany), Sebastian Kucharek (Schongau, Germany) and Marco Lautensach (Schongau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromagnetically shiftable positive engagement clutch is shown. The positive engagement clutch has a shifting sleeve which is arranged...