ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,648, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIGA MOTORS INC. (Lasalle, Canada).

"Electric vehicle with wear mitigation" was invented by Gabriel Bernatchez (Montreal), Ivaylo Petkov (Montreal), Maxence Scully (Montreal) and Cyrus Larsen (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mitigating wear of electric vehicles are provided. A method of operating an electric powersport vehicle includes receiving an accelerator command driving an electric motor of the vehicle based on whether or not the accelerator command is accompanied by a braking command. When the accelerator command exists at a same time as the braking com...