ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,021, issued on March 25, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).

"Hydromechanical transmission and control method" was invented by Lorenzo Dalla Palma (Arco, Italy), Mario Gelmini (Arco, Italy) and Claudio Angeloni (Arco, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling a hydromechanical transmission are proposed. In one example, a control method for a hydrostatic unit of a hydromechanical variable transmission (HVT) is presented, comprising controlling the hydrostatic unit via a feedforward control architecture including a non-linear, multi-coefficient model, wherein the hydrostatic unit comprises ...