US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Methods and system for controlling regenerative torque" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,300, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for controlling regenerative torque" was invented by Lars Niklas Pettersson (Novi, Mich.), Matthew Johnson (Toledo, Ohio), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Andrew Lewandowski (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Andrew Niedert (New Hudson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for adjusting regenerative braking in response to normal loads applied to each of a vehicle's wheels coupled to an electric machine. In one example, a regenerative braking torque for a wheel ma...