ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,474, issued on June 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and architecture for powerhop identification and mitigation" was invented by Hassan Askari (Thornhill, Canada), Mustafa Hakan Turhan (Kitchener, Canada), Saurabh Kapoor (Windsor, Canada), SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.) and Nauman Sohani (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for powerhop identification and mitigation includes receiving sensor data of a vehicle, such as wheel speed; determining a wheel jerk characteristics of the vehicle based on the wheel speed; determining a ride height of the vehicle; dete...