ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,704, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Traction control using multiple actuators" was invented by Hien Nguyen (Tustin, Calif.), Bhuvanesh Sainath (Irvine, Calif.) and Shuyang Wang (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traction control using multiple actuators is provided. A system can identify a slip for a vehicle wheel based on a difference between a wheel motion and a vehicle motion. The system can determine an amount of torque to apply to the wheel to adjust the slip to satisfy the slip target. The system can distribute a first portion of the torque to apply to the wheel v...