US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation on June 23 for "Using 'dynamic regenerative braking' to enhance crash avoidance" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,994, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Using 'dynamic regenerative braking' to enhance crash avoidance" was invented by Christopher R. M. Rundus (Iowa City, Iowa) and Daniel V. McGehee (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamic regenerative braking of a vehicle includes sensing one or more parameters associated with a driving environment of the vehicle, the one or more parameters including parameters determined using a vision system of the vehicle position to capture the driving environment in a forward direction. The method further includes adjusti...