ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,717, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Rough road detection" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.), Andrew Diao (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mike Fraguglia (Meadow Vista, Calif.), Evan Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and James T. Pickett (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rough road detection system is disclosed. The system includes a sensor data receiver to receive sensor data from one or more sensors monitoring a vehicle. A sensor data evaluator to: identify a repeating pattern in the sensor data, the repeating pattern indicative of a terrain type being traversed by the ve...