US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on June 9 for "Grade-based vehicle motion control" (Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,372, issued on June 9, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Grade-based vehicle motion control" was invented by Preston Sering Easley (Evans, Ga.), Cole Elliott O'Brien (North Augusta, S.C.), Gregory August Theodosakis (Martinez, Ga.), Jonathan Daniel Bowen (North Augusta, S.C.) and Christopher Boehm (North Augusta, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques control a utility vehicle. Such techniques involve setting a set of maximum motion limits imposed on the utility vehicle to a set of initial values. Such techniques further involve receiving a set of input signals from a set of sensors, the set of inpu...