ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,127, issued on May 6, 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) and Atsushi Yamasaki (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 regeneration control and gear-shifting control during deceleration of the vehicle with a braking force to front and rear wheels. The controller increases an input torque of an input shaft according to a downshift ...