US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on April 1 for "Automatic lash learn to improve vehicle drivability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,851, issued on April 1, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Automatic lash learn to improve vehicle drivability" was invented by Armin Teymouri (Los Angeles), Younes Sangsefidi (Irvine, Calif.), Chia-Chou Yeh (Torrance, Calif.) and Michael Andrew Miller (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle management system includes a torque control generates torque shaping logic for managing torque output of a drive unit and limiting displacement between a drive unit of a vehicle and a wheel coupled to the drive unit. A measuring device monitors a transferred displacement between the drive unit and the...