US Patent Issued to Electric Propulsion Technologies on July 14 for "System and method for diagnosing a park function for an in-wheel electric motor" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,698, issued on July 14, was assigned to Electric Propulsion Technologies LLC.

"System and method for diagnosing a park function for an in-wheel electric motor" was invented by Douglas D. Turner (Lombard, Ill.) and Kiran Natwerlal Soni (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing a park function in a vehicle including a plurality of in-wheel motors each including first and second planetary gear sets includes, at a computing device, selectively engaging each of the first and second planetary gear sets in each of the plurality of in-wheel motors to place each of the in-wheel motors into a park state, en...