US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Control of accelerator lift-pedal deceleration in an electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,905, issued on July 29, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Control of accelerator lift-pedal deceleration in an electric vehicle" was invented by Bryan Michael Bolger (Canton, Mich.) and Sergey Gennadievich Semenov (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a controller programmed to generate a command to an electric machine to reduce a torque output rate after an accelerator pedal is tipped out based upon a vehicle speed value and a wheel acceleration torque value. The torque output rate is initially reduced at a first rate, and is then reduced at a second rate slower tha...