US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Pulsed torque command with adjustable magnitude for electric machine torque control" (Michigan, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,738, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Pulsed torque command with adjustable magnitude for electric machine torque control" was invented by Chris Wolf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.), Yue Nie (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Monty Anderson (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for commanding an electric drive system for an electric or hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, the drive system is commanded by a controller that supplies a pulsed torque command that varies in magnitude as a function of time when a driver of a vehicle requests a c...