US Patent Issued to Motiv Power Systems on Sept. 23 for "Methods and apparatus for performing hill hold with reduced oscillations in vehicle position" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,645, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Motiv Power Systems Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for performing hill hold with reduced oscillations in vehicle position" was invented by Krishnakumar Ramamoorthy (Foster City, Calif.), Tai-Sik Hwang (San Jose, Calif.) and James Michael Castelaz (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for hill hold in an electric vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a motor and a controller operable in a hill hold control mode. The motor is coupled to one or more wheels of a vehicle. In the hill hold control mode, the controller control...