ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,829, issued on April 1, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).
"Electric vehicle with neutral regeneration" was invented by Koen B. Seynaeve (Veldegem, Belgium), Christophe De Buyser (Veldegem, Belgium), Kevin Vyncke (Bruges, Belgium) and Pieterjan Jozef M. Cooreman (Bruges, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating an electric vehicle in neutral are provided herein. The vehicle system, in one example, includes an electric machine rotationally coupled to a driveline and an input device with a neutral position. The system further includes a control unit with instructions that when executed,...