US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 23 for "Method and system for tracking normal force in active downforce control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,204, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for tracking normal force in active downforce control" was invented by Mohammad Pournazeri (Etobicoke, Canada), Mustafa Hakan Turhan (Kitchener, Canada), Naser Mehrabi (Richmond Hill, Canada), SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.) and Ehsan Asadi (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for downforce control includes receiving vehicle inputs. The method includes determining a first normal-force request at the front axle and a second normal-force request at the rear axle using the plurality of vehicle inp...