US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Dec. 16 for "Method and control unit for operating a drive train of a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,039, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and control unit for operating a drive train of a vehicle" was invented by Jonas Knor (Erbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a drive train (1) of a vehicle monitoring the actual slip forming at a particular first shift element of a transmission (5), comparing the actual slip with a target slip, adapting a characteristic map depending on a deviation between the actual slip and the target slip. The characteristic map is used to determine a shift-element pressure for providing the target slip for a particular...