ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,089, issued on July 1, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Techniques for proprioceptive torque distribution control in multi-motor electrified vehicles" was invented by Alexander J George (Whitmore Lake, Mich.), Chunjian Wang (Troy, Mich.) and Drushan Mavalankar (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proprioceptive torque distribution control systems and methods for an electrified vehicle having a multi-motor electrified powertrain including two or more electric motors involve an accelerometer sensor system configured to measure accelerations of the electrified vehicle relative to three perpendicular ax...