US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 18 for "Towed electrified vehicle braking control" (Michigan, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,039, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Towed electrified vehicle braking control" was invented by William David Treharne (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Thomas Anthony Vassa (Sparks, Nev.) and Anthony Paul Magagnoli (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrified vehicle includes an electric machine, a traction battery selectively connected to the electric machine, a human-machine interface (HMI), and a controller programmed to, after receiving a signal from the HMI enabling towed vehicle operation of the electrified vehicle, control the electric machine to generate a regenerative ...