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Article: Patent No. 7,472,616 Issued on Jan. 6, Assigned to GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer for Step-by-Step Variable Transmission System (German Inventors)
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- March 7, 2009
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7 -- Patrick Dreher of Bad Duerrheim, Germany, Martin Seufert of Steinheim, Germany, and Frank Nageleisen of Kirchzarten, Germany, have developed a method for controlling an automated step-by-step variable transmission. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,472,616 on Jan. 6.
The patent has been assigned to GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG, Untergruppenbach, Germany.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an automated step-by-step variable transmission which has a plurality of gear stages which set up a different transmission ratio in each case. The method ...