US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 11 for "Method for controlling the drive force of a motor vehicle rear axle, which is driven by an electric motor, in the event of an imminent drive over a milled edge" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,272, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for controlling the drive force of a motor vehicle rear axle, which is driven by an electric motor, in the event of an imminent drive over a milled edge" was invented by Marc Espenhain (Munich), Werner Foag (Munich), Nora Gruen (Munich), Claudio Struckmann (Munich) and Christian Wimmer (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an eminent drive of at least one rear wheel of an electrically driven rear axle of a motor vehicle over a milled edge during a forward drive is provided. For this purpose, the motor vehicle has a vertical p...