US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on Aug. 25 for "Method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle" (Austrian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,488, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle" was invented by Petra Wiesinger (Aichkirchen / Lambach, Austria), Robert Ebner (Edt bei Lambach, Austria), Verena Wolfsegger (Roitham am Traunfall, Austria) and David Fillion (Drummondville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle. The method includes operating the transmission in an automatic mode whereby gear shifting of the transmission is performed automatically based on a speed of the vehicle; receiving a shifting requ...