US Patent Issued to DANA on July 14 for "System and method for vehicle hill hold release" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,367, issued on July 14, was assigned to DANA Ltd. (Maumee, Ohio).

"System and method for vehicle hill hold release" was invented by Nicolas Lenaerts (Bruges, Belgium) and Stijn Goossens (Erpe-Mere, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for releasing a vehicle from a hill hold mode is described. In one example, torque output of an electric machine is adjusted to reduce a possibility of the vehicle moving in an unintended direction prior to or during release of the vehicle from hill hold mode."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/400,885.

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