ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,965, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"One-pedal drive control on grade" was invented by Sergey Gennadievich Semenov (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Richard B Eckenrode (Royal Oak, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an electric machine that propels the vehicle, and a controller that, while wheels of only one axle of the vehicle are on a ramp being entered and climbed by the vehicle and a first ramp compensation torque is being commanded to the electric machine, reduces the first ramp compensation torque responsive to a rate of increase of the first ramp compensation...