US Patent Issued to Sonnax Transmission on March 3 for "Vehicle transmission shift shaft bushing assembly" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,928, issued on March 3, was assigned to Sonnax Transmission Co. (Bellows Falls, Vt.).

"Vehicle transmission shift shaft bushing assembly" was invented by Dylan Sebastian LaLone (Dummerston, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling a vehicle transmission shift shaft assembly with a shift shaft having a first diameter, a shift lever fixedly mounted to an end thereof, and a step defining a second diameter smaller than the first diameter along a length thereof. The method includes positioning a seal on the shift shaft to abut the shift lever, and positioning a spacer on the shift shaft to abut the seal. The method furth...