US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on March 17 for "Systems and methods for providing a vehicle with a torque vectored k-turn mode" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,849, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for providing a vehicle with a torque vectored k-turn mode" was invented by Lucas Keller (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for operating a vehicle in a K-turn mode. The K-turn mode is engaged in response to determining that an amount that at least one of the front wheels of the vehicle is turned exceeds a turn threshold. While operating in the K-turn mode, forward torque is provided to the front wheels of the vehicle. Further, backward torque is provided to the rear whe...