US Patent Issued to VOLVO TRUCK on Nov. 3 for "Powertrain and a vehicle" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,839, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Powertrain and a vehicle" was invented by Sven Norberg (Hisings Backa, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powertrain for a vehicle has a first power unit, a first primary reduction gearset, a first planetary gearset, shiftable between at least two gear states, comprising a direct gear state with a 1:1 speed ratio and a speed reduction gear state, a first secondary reduction gearset, a second planetary gearset, shiftable between at least two gear states, comprising a direct gear state with a 1:1 speed ratio and at least one speed reduction gear state, ...