US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 24 for "Wheel motor compensation systems and methods using wheel sensor data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,694, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Wheel motor compensation systems and methods using wheel sensor data" was invented by Jonathan Engels (Tecumseh, Mich.), Mahmoud Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Sai Prasanth Velusamy (Canton, Mich.) and Dilip Patel (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel motor compensation system is for a vehicle. The vehicle has a wheel motor and a tire coupled to the wheel motor. The system includes a hybrid wireless tire sensor (HWTS) coupled to an interior of the tire, a processor electrically connected to the wheel motor, and a memory. The memory has in...