US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 15 for "Control unit for providing a one-pedal feel and/or a creep function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,389, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Control unit for providing a one-pedal feel and/or a creep function" was invented by Thomas Eberl (Sauerlach, Germany), Werner Foag (Munich), Andreas Rank (Olching, Germany), Florian Schnappauf (Hattenhofen, Germany), Ralf Seibert (Neusaess, Germany) and Georg Soyer (Fischbachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for a motor vehicle which includes at least one electric machine for driving one or more wheels of the vehicle and at least one friction brake is provided. The control unit is configured to determine that a one-pedal feel funct...