US Patent Issued to FCA US on Dec. 23 for "Hybrid vehicle engine start using clutches of dual clutch transmission" (Italian, Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,098, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Hybrid vehicle engine start using clutches of dual clutch transmission" was invented by Indrasen Karogal (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Zachary L Tuller (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Nadirsh Patel (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Dario Morina (Turin, Italy), Alessandro Lelli (Turin, Italy), Giuseppe Corallo (Turin, Italy), Pier Luca Di Gristina (Turin, Italy), Paolo Olivieri (Pecello Torinese, Italy), Gaurav S Sadekar (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Federico de Bosio (Turin, Italy), Allwyn Bhakare (Windsor, Canada) and Naresh Sathyamoorthy (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...