US Patent Issued to FPT MOTORENFORSCHUNG on May 27 for "Method and a system for controlling a vehicle on a mission" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,912, issued on May 27, was assigned to FPT MOTORENFORSCHUNG AG (Arbon, Switzerland).

"Method and a system for controlling a vehicle on a mission" was invented by Johannes Ritzmann (Bulach, Switzerland), Oscar Chinellato (Tubach, Switzerland), Georg Lins (Wallisellen, Switzerland), Mauro Salazar (Breganzona, Switzerland) and Christopher Onder (Weisslingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a vehicle on a mission, the vehicle comprising a first and a second power source for driving the vehicle itself, wherein the first power source comprises an engine configured to generate power from fuel and an after...