ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,777, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).
"Control method for an electric road vehicle to reproduce a sound associable with a gear shift and related road vehicle" was invented by Antonio Palermo (Modena, Italy) and Daniele Genova (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control method for a vehicle comprising the steps of: providing a memory unit comprising a plurality of audio files corresponding to the sound of a gear shift in a number of predefined operational configurations as a function of at least one vehicular state variable; detecting a gear shift request from a driver to a gear shifting syste...