US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Method and system for recovering from torque reduction control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,840, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system for recovering from torque reduction control" was invented by Nithesh Maddi Reddy (Canton, Mich.), Matthew Shelton (Grosse Ile, Mich.) and Kyle Culek (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for adjusting wheel torque to a driver demand wheel torque after the wheel torque has been reduced below the driver demand wheel torque are described. In one example, a rate at which wheel torque is returned to driver demand wheel torque is based on sign changes for wheel speed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, ...