ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,249, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Advanced gated shifter for vehicle manual and automatic transmission emulation" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented herein for providing haptic feedback by a shifter assembly in an electric vehicle based on a data structure corresponding to a vehicle architecture that is different from the electric vehicle. The shifter assembly is determined by processing circuitry to be in communication with at least one control unit of the electric veh...