US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch, Bosch on Aug. 25 for "Controller and method to assist quick gearshift in a vehicle using gear position sensor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,486, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany) and Bosch Ltd. (Karnataka, India).

"Controller and method to assist quick gearshift in a vehicle using gear position sensor" was invented by Murali Jagannath Rao (Bangalore, India), Cheradiyaniyil Abhijith Sabu (Bangalore, India) and Hemant Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle comprises a Gearbox Position Sensor (GPS). The controller is adapted to receive input signals from the GPS, compare a value of the input signal with a predetermined threshold value, and activate a shift assist functionality based on the comparison. The v...