US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on Sept. 9 for "Method for switching an electrically shiftable transmission for a vehicle, and electrically shiftable transmission" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,863, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for switching an electrically shiftable transmission for a vehicle, and electrically shiftable transmission" was invented by Matthias Callesen (Wennigsen, Germany) and Uwe Winkelholz (Wennigsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for shifting an electrically shiftable transmission (230) for a vehicle (200a), in particular a commercial vehicle (200b) includes detecting (110) a state (237) of a shifting element (235) relating to a blocking position (231) of a shifting element (235) relative to a further shifting element (2...