US Patent Issued to Cummins on Feb. 25 for "Plug-in electric vehicles with derated traction control upon system faults" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,851, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Plug-in electric vehicles with derated traction control upon system faults" was invented by Martin T. Books (Columbus, Ind.), Jennifer Kay Light-Holets (Greenwood, Ind.), Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and David E. Schisler (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling the distribution of power to a traction motor in a plug-in electric vehicle having a plurality of on-board sources of electric power. Power is distributed at a normal power control relationship in response to an operator control input during operation in...