US Patent Issued to Vitesco Technologies Germany on Feb. 18 for "Method of controlling a vehicle drivetrain and controller in the drivetrain" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,167, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method of controlling a vehicle drivetrain and controller in the drivetrain" was invented by Artemis Kostarigka (Nuremberg, Germany) and Ruben Konig (Hemsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a vehicle drivetrain by an electric motor, in order to synchronize the speed of an internal combustion engine and the speed of gears in the drivetrain, wherein if a speed synchronization error esync(t) is controlled to remain within a prespecified region for a specific period of time, the synchronization is finished, and...