ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,273, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Control method for an electrically driven road vehicle driven by a driver, and relative road vehicle" was invented by Raffaele De Simone (Modena, Italy), Alessandro Flumeri (Modena, Italy) and Stefano Varisco (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for an electrically driven road vehicle comprising the steps of: providing an electric powertrain system; determining a plurality of first virtual gears for a boost configuration and/or a plurality of second virtual gears for a release configuration; detecting, following actuation of an interfac...