ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,063, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle drift control method and system, and vehicle" was invented by Yubo Lian (Shenzhen, China), Heping Ling (Shenzhen, China), Mingchuan Shi (Shenzhen, China), Hongxia Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Luo Fu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drift control method includes obtaining a required whole vehicle torque and state parameters of a vehicle in response to a drift operation instruction of a user. The state parameters include a first vehicle speed, a first yaw rate, and a first mass center sideslip angle. The method also includes determin...