ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,625, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cariad SE (Wolfsburg, Germany) and Audi AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Vehicle with a curve tilting function" was invented by Andreas Unger (Gaimersheim, Germany), Michael Jall (Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm, Germany), Philipp Knuth (Munich), Hanno Stingl (Kipfenberg, Germany) and Tobias Templer (Hitzhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having an active chassis system with curve tilting function, comprises a control unit, which when negotiating a curve determines a vehicle tilting angle on the basis of a current vehicle transverse acceleration or a correlated driving operation parameter,...