ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,861, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Method for traction control of a vehicle or a vehicle combination" was invented by Mirko Brutt (Springe, Germany), Daniel Pfefferkorn (Hannover, Germany), Jan Spremberg (Wennigsen, Germany) and Thomas Wolf (Barsinghausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling traction of a wheeled vehicle or a vehicle combination having a tractor vehicle and at least one trailer vehicle. A sensor device on a coupling element of a trailer device transmits coupling forces in x, y, and z directions to the coupling element of the tractor...