US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on Oct. 27 for "Method and device for determining a motor reference torque of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,972, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Method and device for determining a motor reference torque of a motor vehicle" was invented by Hartmut Binder (Hannover, Germany), Michael Knosmann (Hannover, Germany) and Youssef Swaid (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for determining the engine reference torque, used in a controller of a motor vehicle, of the engine of the motor vehicle, wherein the engine reference torque is determined by estimation. A value for the mass of the motor vehicle and a motor vehicle velocity value determined at each of two different times during acc...