US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Aug. 11 for "Torque control system and method for drive systems of electric vehicles" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,251, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Torque control system and method for drive systems of electric vehicles" was invented by Jiwon Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque control system and method are disclosed for drive systems of electric vehicles including a shift intervention torque implementation method specialized for an electric vehicle being capable of executing both a virtual shift mode and a drift mode. The torque control system includes a controller configured to generate a rear wheel torque command a front whee...