ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,327, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle transmission control system" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.) and Zackary Swisher (Taylor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a transmission and a controller. The transmission is configured to transition between automatic and manual modes. The controller is programmed to, in response to the transmission operating in the manual mode and an absence of receiving a manual command to shift the transmission for a predetermined period of time, transition the operation of the transmission from the manual mode to the...