US Patent Issued to FERRARI on May 12 for "Electric road vehicle provided with a reproduction device for the realization of a sound associable with a gear shift and related method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,685, issued on May 12, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Electric road vehicle provided with a reproduction device for the realization of a sound associable with a gear shift and related method" was invented by Antonio Palermo (Modena, Italy), Maddalena Cirillo (Modena, Italy), Roberto Betro' (Modena, Italy) and Ugo Sitta (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road vehicle includes four wheels, of which at least two are drive wheels; a passenger compartment configured to accommodate at least one driver; at least one electric motor configured to deliver drive torque to the at least two drive wheels; a gear shift...