ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,129, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle motion control considering dynamic gear ratio for multi-speed drive systems" was invented by Su-Yang Shieh (Clawson, Mich.), Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Mich.), Dongxu Li (Troy, Mich.) and Paul Guillermo Otanez (Franklin, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a system and method of operating a gearbox of the vehicle. The vehicle includes an interface for entering a desired vehicle acceleration and a processor. The system includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive the desired vehicle acceleration, create an obj...