US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on June 24 for "Decentralized traction control" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,681, issued on June 24, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Decentralized traction control" was invented by Jan Behling (Dortmund, Germany), Mathias Rotgeri (Dortmund, Germany), Jan Soren Emmerich (Dortmund, Germany), Dirk Honing (Dortmund, Germany), Patrick Klokowski (Dortmund, Germany) and Christian Hammermeister (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes an omnidirectional drive system configured to provide a movement of the vehicle, wherein the omnidirectional drive system includes a multitude of omnidirectional drive means, wherein each of the ...