ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,211, issued on March 3, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Methods and systems for torque transitioning" was invented by Koen B. Seynaeve (Veldegem, Belgium), Pieterjan Jozef M. Cooreman (Bruges, Belgium), Christophe De Buyser (Veldegem, Belgium) and Kevin Vyncke (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for torque application during a deceleration event initiated via a shift lever direction change request. In one example, adjusting a deceleration torque towards a traction torque of a going to direction at a vehicle standstill based on an actual vehicle speed and an accelerato...