ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,903, issued on May 13, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).
"Vehicle initialization" was invented by Timothy Hutchinson (Coventry, Great Britain) and Sarath Nair (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a vehicle includes one or more controllers, wherein the control system is configured to: receive a driver gear shift request; determine if the vehicle is in a vehicle initialisation period; determine if a driver of the vehicle is actuating at least one brake of the vehicle; store the driver gear shift request based at least in part on the determination that the vehicle i...