US Patent Issued to Zhejiang CFMoto Power on Feb. 11 for "Off-road vehicle and control methods thereof" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,061, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Zhejiang CFMoto Power Co. Ltd. (Zhejiang, China).

"Off-road vehicle and control methods thereof" was invented by Haifeng Liang (Hangzhou, China), Linglong Meng (Hangzhou, China) and Jeffrey D. Shewchuk (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An off-road vehicle includes a control module which limits power source rotational speed beneath a controlled rotational speed value based both on whether a protection device such as a safety belt is engaged or disengaged and on whether the vehicle velocity is greater than or less than a velocity threshold. If the safety belt becomes dise...