US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 1 for "Method and system for performing regenerative braking with feedback from brake-traction control system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,217, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Method and system for performing regenerative braking with feedback from brake-traction control system" was invented by Jaime Antonio Lugo-Castillo (Unionville, Ind.), Martin T. Books (Columbus, Ind.) and Richard A. Booth (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating a vehicle on a reduced traction surface are disclosed. A controller of the vehicle obtains at least one of: ambient information or GPS information, determines a derate increment size based on the ambient or GPS information, imposes a sustained derate by applying a tor...