ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,351, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Future Motion Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Vibrational notification of motor conditions in a self-balancing electric vehicle" was invented by Kyle Jonathan Doerksen (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Daniel James Wood (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vibrationally notifying a rider of a self-balancing electric vehicle may include: operating a self-balancing electric vehicle, receiving, at a motor controller of a self-balancing electric vehicle, a measured value corresponding to a first parameter of the self-balancing electric vehicle, and applying a first pattern of vibrational im...