ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,282, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle and corresponding regenerative braking control system" was invented by Brandon Jay Woodland (Livonia, Mich.) and Sergey Gennadievich Semenov (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an electric machine, friction brakes, a brake pedal, and a controller. The controller is programmed to, in response to depressing the brake pedal to generate a first command to reduce the speed of the vehicle, reduce the speed of the vehicle (i) via regenerative braking or (ii) via regenerative braking plus friction braking. T...