US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 17 for "Systems and methods for resolving hill start conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,509, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for resolving hill start conditions" was invented by Brian Harries (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Boru Wang (Torrance, Calif.), Kang Wang (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) and Chia-Chou Yeh (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative systems for performing hill stall/start assist functions. An illustrative drive unit controller receives a zero-speed command electric motor information, generates a torque command based on the received zero-speed command the electric motor information, and ...