ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,896, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JATCO Ltd (Fuji, Japan) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control device for transmission" was invented by Ken Okahara (Atsugi, Japan), Yoshinori Yamamura (Yokohama, Japan), Seiichirou Takahashi (Isehara, Japan), Daisuke Nagae (Hiratsuka, Japan), Atsushi Shimada (Tochigi, Japan), Satoru Ishii (Yokohama, Japan) and Yasuhiro Tanaka (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for a transmission is used in a transmission that is provided with a continuously variable transmission mechanism including a primary pulley to which a drive force of a drive source mounted on a ...