ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,421, issued on June 3, was assigned to FERRARI S.p.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Control method for carrying out a gear shift in a transmission provided with a clutch gearbox" was invented by Stefano Varisco (Modena, Italy), Andrea Nannini (Modena, Italy), Daniele Genova (Modena, Italy), Lorenzo Laraia (Modena, Italy) and Alessandro Barone (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control method to carry out a gear shift in a manual automatic transmission provided with a gearbox having at least one clutch and in a road vehicle having an internal combustion engine and at least one reversible electric machine. The control method involves the...