US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on March 18 for "Method for controlling a powertrain of a vehicle having a dual-clutch transmission" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,165, issued on March 18, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Method for controlling a powertrain of a vehicle having a dual-clutch transmission" was invented by Roman Schmied (Schwanenstadt, Austria), Robert Ebner (Edt bei Lambach, Austria), Verena Wolfsegger (Roitham am Traunfall, Austria) and Petra Wiesinger (Aichkirchen / Lambach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a powertrain of a vehicle, the powertrain a dual-clutch transmission including a first clutch and a second clutch selectively actuated to transmit motion from the engine to a first shaft and a second shaft respe...