US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on May 27 for "Method, device and computer program product for the restrained movement of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,944, issued on May 27, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method, device and computer program product for the restrained movement of a vehicle" was invented by Oliver Busse (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Christian Zink (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for the restrained movement of a vehicle with a drive unit for accelerating the vehicle, and a braking unit for braking the vehicle. A restraining drive torque is generated by the drive unit, and a braking torque is generated by the braking unit to compensate for the restraining drive torque and thereby to generate a restraining ...