US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 18 for "Driver-selectable vehicle launch torque curves and open-loop engine torque control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,125, issued on March 18, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Driver-selectable vehicle launch torque curves and open-loop engine torque control" was invented by James M Wilder (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Christopher E Pueppke (Clarkston, Mich.) and Jeremy J Anker (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A launch control technique for a vehicle having a torque generating system comprises displaying, via a user interface, information relating to a set of launch torque curves, each launch torque curve defining how the torque generating system is to generate drive torque during a period, receiving, via the user in...