US Patent Issued to TEXTRON on Sept. 29 for "Closed loop pulse braking using IMU measurements" (Georgia, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,898, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TEXTRON INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Closed loop pulse braking using IMU measurements" was invented by Gregory August Theodosakis (Martinez, Ga.), Russell William King (Evans, Ga.) and Kevin Douglas Grove (McCormick, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recreational vehicle includes an electromagnetic braking system, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a vehicle controller configured to identify a fault condition of the recreational vehicle. The vehicle controller also determines a target velocity trajectory to bring the vehicle to a controlled stop with an average deceleration less than a ...