US Patent Issued to on Oct. 27 for "Transmission control apparatus" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,744, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SL Corp. (Daegu, South Korea).

"Transmission control apparatus" was invented by Hyouk Kwon (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Youngjae Cho (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission control apparatus includes a housing; an inner shaft configured to be rotatable within a predetermined angular range with respect to the housing; a rotation lever configured to be rotatable along with the inner shaft to set a transmission position to one of Park (P), Reverse (R), Neutral (N), or Drive (D) positions; a solenoid disposed in the housing and configured to be interfered with the rotatio...