ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,259, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Dynamic accelerator response management for a vehicle" was invented by Martin T. Books (Columbus, Ind.) and Vivek Anand Sujan (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an indication regarding a deceleration event for a vehicle, remapping a response of a prime mover of the vehicle from following a first response curve to following a deceleration response curve in response to (i) the deceleration event and (ii) a speed of the vehicle being greater than a speed threshold, and activating an output of the prime mover to accelerate the ve...