ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,493, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Control of transitions between transmission states" was invented by Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Mich.), Dongxu Li (Troy, Mich.), Farzad Samie (Franklin, Mich.), Paul Guillermo Otanez (Franklin, Mich.) and Su-Yang Shieh (Clawson, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a transmission state of a vehicle includes a controller connected to a first drive system and a first transmission including a gear system, a first clutch and a second clutch. The controller is configured to receive a request to change from an initial transmission stat...