US Patent Issued to FERRARI on April 21 for "Apparatus and method for estimating a grip factor of a wheel of a road vehicle and relative road vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,180, issued on April 21, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Apparatus and method for estimating a grip factor of a wheel of a road vehicle and relative road vehicle" was invented by Alessandro Flumeri (Modena, Italy) and Andrea Fuso (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for estimating a grip factor of at least one wheel comprising: a control unit configured to process a current slip angle of said wheel; a storage unit, within which, in a consultation table, a plurality of grip curves correlating a plurality of values of a steering parameter comprising the rack force with a plurality of values of the s...