ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,852, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Methods and system for operating a vehicle in sand" was invented by Zubair Feroz (Dearborn, Mich.), Bang Cao (Northville, Mich.), Joseph Jay Torres (Dearborn, Mich.), Peter James Barrette (Jupiter, Fla.) and Jonathan Sullivan (Ferndale, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for operating a vehicle in a mode to free the vehicle from being stuck in sand are presented. In one example, a speed of an electric machine is adjusted to determine when wheel jitter occurs. The electric machine speed may be maintained at a speed...