US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 3 for "Trailer brake fade recognition and mitigation system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,180, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Trailer brake fade recognition and mitigation system" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Kenneth Patrick McHugh (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a speed control system that is configured to increase and decrease vehicle speed when a command is received from a control system. The speed control system may include an engine that provides positive torque, and a friction-based system that is configured to provide negative torque ...