US Patent Issued to FCA US on Jan. 13 for "Techniques for utilizing a torque converter quadratic model to determine a maximum powertrain torque capability" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,193, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Techniques for utilizing a torque converter quadratic model to determine a maximum powertrain torque capability" was invented by Nadirsh D Patel (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Hangxing Sha (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Krishna Chaitanya Reddy Madireddy (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Harshal Sudhir Kudupley (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powertrain control method for a vehicle includes determining, based on empirical operation data for a powertrain, maximum torques for the torque generating system at each of a plurality of breakpoints corresponding to differ...