ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,770, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM (Bruges, Belgium).

"Vehicle system and traction control method for the vehicle system" was invented by Koen B. Seynaeve (Veldegem, Belgium), Christophe De Buyser (Veldegem, Belgium) and Yelle Vandergucht (Bruges, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traction control systems and methods are provided. In one example, a method for operating a driveline system includes selecting a vehicle standstill driveline output torque set point that maps to a pedal position and adjusting the vehicle standstill driveline output torque set point based on vehicle speed and accelerator pedal position....