ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,159, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"System for vehicle wheelspin detection and correction" was invented by Gregory August Theodosakis (Martinez, Ga.), Russell William King (Evans, Ga.) and Matthew Jacob Noftsger (Evans, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and correcting wheelspin in a vehicle powered by a motor includes drive wheels driven by the motor and a motor controller in communication with the motor. In one embodiment, a vehicle acceleration from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) is compared to an estimated vehicle acceleration determined from an accelera...