ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,172, issued on July 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for downforce estimation using a half-car model with a data driven uncertainties estimator" was invented by Mohammad Pournazeri (Etobicoke, Canada), Naser Mehrabi (Richmond Hill, Canada), Ehsan Asadi (Markham, Canada) and SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for downforce control includes receiving a plurality of vehicle inputs from a vehicle. The plurality of vehicle inputs includes sensor data from a plurality of sensors of the vehicle. The method further includes determining a ...