US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Feb. 10 for "Method and control unit for operating a drive train of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,391, issued on Feb. 10, 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), Roland Jager (Grasbrunn, Germany), Dennis Schaer (Meckenbeuren, Germany), Philipp Kolbl (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Michael Miller (Leutkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a drive train (1) of a vehicle includes, in order to check the plausibility of an adapted charge pressure value, changing an actuating pressure of a starting component (7) corresponding to an adapted charge pressure value by an of...