US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Aug. 26 for "Method and control apparatus for operating a transmission of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,801, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and control apparatus for operating a transmission of a motor vehicle" was invented by Paul Myszka (Eriskirch, Germany), Fabian Lebherz (Wasserburg, Germany), Matthias Wild (Salem, Germany), Jens Weller (Constance, Germany), Jorg Arnold (Immenstaad, Germany), Jurgen Blaser (Meckenbeuren, Germany) and Ulf Lang (Aidlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission between a drive aggregate and a drive output of a vehicle drivetrain has a hydrodynamic starting element and a powershiftable main transmission with a plurality of fo...