US Patent Issued to WARN Automotive on Dec. 16 for "Electric vehicle four-wheel drive shifting control" (Oregon, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,912, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to WARN Automotive LLC (Milwaukie, Ore.).

"Electric vehicle four-wheel drive shifting control" was invented by Bryan M. Averill (Portland, Ore.) and Adrian Simula (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, this disclosure relates to a system and method of control for driveline actuators (DLAs) in the powertrain of an electric vehicle to perform shifting between two-wheel drive (2WD) and four-wheel drive (4WD) configurations. Sequential and overlapping shift process is used. The first disconnect is instructed by a vehicle control system to begin its shift, which takes approximately ...