US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA on May 26 for "System and method of controlling axle hop in a vehicle" (Arizona, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,081, issued on May 26, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"System and method of controlling axle hop in a vehicle" was invented by Paul Robson (Chandler, Ariz.) and Scott Warnecke (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling axle hop in a vehicle includes a sensor and an electronic controller. The sensor is configured to detect a vibration of an axle and to detect a wheel slip of a wheel. The electronic controller is configured to determine whether one of the detected axle vibration exceeds a first predetermined threshold or the detected wheel slip exceeds a second predeter...