US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 17 for "Torque transfer device control for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,819, issued on June 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Torque transfer device control for a vehicle" was invented by James R. Walter (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steven Gene Reini (Waterford, Mich.), Shane Macfarlane (Northville, Mich.) and Brian Ronald Goodman (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a torque transfer device for a vehicle may include identifying a self-locking state of the torque transfer device. The method further may include determining a drivetrain unlocking torque necessary to unlock the torque transfer device in response to identifying the self-locking sta...