ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,659, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Method and control apparatus for operating a motor vehicle" was invented by Jurgen Blaser (Meckenbeuren, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle transmission is connected between a drive aggregate and a drive output, and includes a powershiftable main transmission group with a plurality of forward gears and at least one reversing gear. A hydrodynamic starting element is connected between the drive aggregate and the transmission. The main transmission has frictional shifting elements of which, in each gear, a first number are clos...