US Patent Issued to Hyliion on April 29 for "Supplemental electric drive with primary engine recognition for electric drive controller adaptation" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,092, issued on April 29, was assigned to Hyliion Inc. (Cedar Park, Texas).

"Supplemental electric drive with primary engine recognition for electric drive controller adaptation" was invented by Roger Richter (Leander, Texas), Jamie Noland (Pittsburgh) and Morgan Culbertson (Shadyside, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Through-the-road (TTR) hybrid designs using control strategies such as an equivalent consumption minimization strategy (ECMS) or an adaptive ECMS are implemented at the supplemental torque delivering electrically powered drive axle (or axles) in a manner that follows operational parameters or computationally estimates s...