US Patent Issued to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS on March 18 for "Methods of operating an electric vehicle and electric snowmobile" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,212, issued on March 18, was assigned to BOMBARDIER RECREATIONAL PRODUCTS INC. (Valcourt, Canada).

"Methods of operating an electric vehicle and electric snowmobile" was invented by Esa Vaisanen (Rovaniemi, Finland), Ioannis Soultanis (Vantaa, Finland), Jukka Keranen (Rovaniemi, Finland) and Ashley Sharp (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electric vehicle has the steps of: determining if at least one of a speed of the vehicle and a speed of an electric motor of the vehicle is zero; in response to the at least one of the speed being zero, determining if a reverse actuator is actuated; in response to th...