US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on Aug. 5 for "Method for supporting a traction vehicle in the event of traction loss" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,851, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for supporting a traction vehicle in the event of traction loss" was invented by Johannes Heseding (Hannover, Germany) and Janik Ricke (Uetze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for assisting a towing vehicle in the event of a loss of traction via a trailer vehicle. The method includes determining a differential slip between a driven wheel and a driveless wheel of the towing vehicle via a brake control unit and generating an acceleration demand dependent on the determined differential slip. The method fu...