ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,544, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MONT INVEST 30 AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Vehicle gear shift system" was invented by Knut Tore Ljosne (Lom, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle and a vehicle gear shift system (1) comprising: -an energy source (20); -an energy storage element (30), and -a longitudinal energy transfer element (50, 150) configured to interconnect the gear shift element (10) and the energy storage element (30); wherein the energy source (20) is configured to load or charge the energy storage element (30) with potential energy via a movement of the energy transfer element (50) in its longitudinal direction wit...