US Patent Issued to DANA BELGIUM on March 25 for "Diagnostic and control method for a vehicle system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,002, issued on March 25, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).

"Diagnostic and control method for a vehicle system" was invented by Peter Deckmyn (Koekelare, Belgium), Bjorn Aelvoet (Lievegem, Belgium) and Brecht Fevery (Flanders, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling and diagnosing a mechanical vehicle component. In one example, a method may include determining an input device state and an electric machine torque at a diagnostic controller, and identifying a fault condition based on these determinations. Further, the diagnostic controller may trigger an active fault s...