ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,988, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Driver-vehicle interaction for active downforce control" was invented by Mohammad Pournazeri (Etobicoke, Canada), Mansour Ataei (Richmond Hill, Canada), Reza Hajiloo (Richmond Hill, Canada), Ehsan Asadi (Markham, Canada), Mustafa Hakan Turhan (Kitchener, Canada) and SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for active downforce control for a vehicle may include determining an out-of-phase interaction index between a driver of the vehicle and a controller. The controller is configured to control one or...