ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,534, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Supplementing regenerative braking" was invented by Vivek Narsimhan Suryanarayanan (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle controller performs regenerative braking using one or more drive units. The capacity of a battery of the vehicle to receive regenerative current is compared to a reference capacity and an amount of friction braking is generated based on the comparison. The capacity may be determined based on temperature and state of charge of the battery and the duration of regenerative braking. Other systems of the vehicle may sele...