US Patent Issued to ClearMotion on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for responding to road surface discontinuities" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,791, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for responding to road surface discontinuities" was invented by Gert-Jan Alexander Vente (North Andover, Mass.) and Matthew Jo Taylor (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments are related to suspension systems including dampers and suspension actuators and related methods of control for mitigating the effects of potholes and other road surface discontinuities."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/343,130.

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