US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Friction estimation for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,286, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Friction estimation for a vehicle" was invented by Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and Sai Prasanth Velusamy (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes at least one wheel that drives a tire to move the vehicle along a support. The vehicle includes a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver that transmits an RF signal toward the support and measures a reflected signal. The vehicle includes a drive unit that drives rotation of the at least one wheel. The vehicle includes control circuitry in communication with the RF transceiver a...