ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,251, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VOLVO TRUCK Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Torque vectoring control method for vehicles" was invented by Kristoffer Tagesson (Hammaro, Sweden) and Leo Laine (Harryda Vastra Gotaland, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for reducing a lateral drift of a heavy-duty vehicle due to a road bank angle, where the heavy-duty vehicle is associated with a non-zero understeer/oversteer gradient. The method comprises obtaining a road bank angle of a road section the heavy-duty vehicle is about to traverse; obtaining a vehicle model indicative of a vehicle motion response to th...