US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Coordinated control of vehicle and trailer electric machines" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,857, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Coordinated control of vehicle and trailer electric machines" was invented by Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Andrew Denis Lewandowski (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Shehan Haputhanthri (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller commands an electric machine of a vehicle to produce propulsive torque with energy from a traction battery of the vehicle and, at a same time, commands an electric machine of a trailer coupled with the vehicle to produce regenerative torque such that a speed of the v...