ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,379, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Vehicle mass and road grade based regenerative braking and anti-rollback" was invented by Jaime Antonio Lugo-Castillo (Unionville, Ind.), Jack Schneider (Columbus, Ind.) and Sashwat Mahapatra (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling torque of an electric vehicle, including sensing a surface grade; determining an acceleration of the vehicle; determining an initial torque of the vehicle; estimating a weight of the vehicle based the surface grade, the acceleration, and the initial torque; converting the weight of the vehicle to a weight...