US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on May 12 for "Method and control device for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,651, issued on May 12, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and control device for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle" was invented by Franz Lutz (Geltendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle for a reversing operation for changing from a forward gear to a reverse gear or vice versa when the motor vehicle is rolling at a speed less than a limit value, and in which a first shift element of the transmission is disengaged and a second shift element of the transmission is engaged, the method including receiving a target torque profile...