ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,384, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV (Brussels).

"Method and driving dynamics system for controlling a starting process of a vehicle" was invented by Ralph-Carsten Luelfing (Garbsen, Germany), Detlef Schmidt (Gehrden, Germany), Ruppert Kamping (Hannover, Germany), Thomas Lenz (Lehrte, Germany), Tobias Munko (Hannover, Germany) and Stefan Selent (Nienburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a starting process of a vehicle includes activating a control sequence and setting a control sequence signal, defining a maximum engine drive torque, and detecting a drive request for a starti...