US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on July 21 for "Method and device for actuating an electrical drive of a trailer vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,278, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method and device for actuating an electrical drive of a trailer vehicle" was invented by Nikolai Flaum (Hannover, Germany), Johannes Heseding (Hannover, Germany), Janik Ricke (Uetze, Germany) and Torsten Wallbaum (Duingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for actuating an electric drive of a trailer vehicle with a towing vehicle, including the steps: determining a current slip of at least one driven wheel of a towing vehicle pulling the trailer vehicle, determining an expected slip for the driven wheel of ...