ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,924, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).
"Road vehicle implementing a launch control procedure and corresponding control method" was invented by Giorgio Cucciolla (Modena, Italy), Flavio Gargiulo (Modena, Italy) and Maximilian Romani (Modena, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road vehicle having: a passenger compartment delimited by a roof at the top; at least one front seat arranged in the passenger compartment; an accelerator pedal; a brake pedal; a control unit, which implements a launch control procedure; and a manual control, which is can be operated to carry out the activation of the launch...