ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,848, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Method and system with selectable multimode control of regenerative braking torque limitation" was invented by Richard A. Booth (Columbus, Ind.), Jaime A. Lugo-Castillo (Unionville, Ind.), Sathya Narayanan Hariharan (Columbus, Ind.) and Martin T. Books (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for controlling regenerative braking of a vehicle are disclosed. A user interface facilitates a user to provide an input to select an operating mode for the vehicle, the operating mode selected from one of selectable modes comprising...