US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Electric motor torque control for electric vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,266, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Electric motor torque control for electric vehicles" was invented by Matthew Stephen Zebiak (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and James M. Gessner (Hartland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle acceleration control system includes an electric motor configured to drive wheels of an electric vehicle, a steering wheel configured to steer the wheels of the electric vehicle, an acceleration paddle adjacent the steering wheel, and a vehicle control module configured to, in response to detecting activation of the acceleration paddle, set a target s...