US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 7 for "Parking lock arrangement for a vehicle transmission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,511, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Parking lock arrangement for a vehicle transmission" was invented by Patrick Klein (Langenargen, Germany), Georg Seltmann (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Tobias Miller (Waldburg, Germany), Robert Strauch (Ravensburg, Germany), Matthias List (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Lars-Erik Meyer (Meersburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking lock arrangement for a motor vehicle transmission includes a parking lock gear arranged on a transmission shaft by sliding onto a guide region (7) defined on the radially outward side of the component (2) vi...