ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,851, issued on June 24, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Loading calculation module, vehicle anti-runaway system, vehicle and method using the same" was invented by Chia-Jui Hu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Tse-Lin Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Xuan Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading calculation module includes a storage unit, an inertial sensing unit and a calculation unit. The first storage unit is configured to store a relationship between an engine performance and a load, a sprung mass, a centroid distance between a sprung centroid, a rotation center and a momen...