US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA on Nov. 25 for "Temporary torque control system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,292, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Temporary torque control system" was invented by Erik St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Stefan Witwicki (San Carlos, Calif.) and Nikhil Gowda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle pedal, a vehicle engine and an electronic control unit. The vehicle engine generates a torque output of the vehicle in accordance with an operation of the vehicle pedal. The electronic control unit controls the vehicle pedal between a normal state, an increased resistance state and a decreased resistance state. The vehicle pedal is less sensiti...