ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,464, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for determining a displacement velocity signal, and active wheel suspension" was invented by Shi Yan (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a displacement velocity signal for controlling an active wheel suspension of a land vehicle by open-loop and/or closed-loop control includes at least one Kalman filter, and at least one acceleration sensor arranged on a sprung mass of the land vehicle to sense a vertical acceleration of the sprung mass and to generate a corresponding acceleration signal supp...