US Patent Issued to MAN Truck & Bus on Aug. 18 for "Force-based determination of a target gear combination for a plurality of drive systems" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,165, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MAN Truck & Bus SE (Munich).

"Force-based determination of a target gear combination for a plurality of drive systems" was invented by Felix Lambrecht (Munich) and Fabian Hoffmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target gear combination for a vehicle having at least two drive systems is determined. Each of the two drive system drives a vehicle axle and each of the two drive systems has at least one electric motor and at least one transmission has at least two gears The target gear combination is determined based on one or more of a route profile lying ahead, a speed and/or an accelerati...