ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,023, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus" was invented by Makoto Yamada (Aki-gun, Japan), Tooru Uematsu (Aki-gun, Japan), Atsushi Yamasaki (Aki-gun, Japan), Taiki Kado (Aki-gun, Japan), Keita Ejiri (Aki-gun, Japan) and Kiminori Higo (Aki-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle gear-shifting control apparatus is equipped with an engine, a motor, an automatic transmission, a friction brake system, and a controller which executes a regeneration control of imparting a regenerative braking torque to rear wheels by causing the motor to perform a regen...