ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,076, issued on June 23, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Gear shifting device, a transmission and a method for assembling a transmission" was invented by Jenny Lepa (Lindome, Sweden), Klas Bergstrom (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Eduardo Erbesdobler (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear shifting device for a transmission of a vehicle has a rod configured to be connected to an actuator for moving the rod along a longitudinal axis of the rod, and a set of shift forks comprising a first shift fork and a second shift fork, the first and second shift forks being fixed to the rod so as to be actua...