ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,650, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Adaptive electric vehicle regenerative braking" was invented by Themi Petridis (Bishop's Stortford, Great Britain) and Paul Etheridge (Basildon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for activating a regenerative braking profile of a first vehicle are provided. A plurality of driving signals are received from the first vehicle. The driving signals are associated with a first driver of the first vehicle. It is detected that the first driver is attempting to maintain a steady vehicle speed based on the driving signals fro...