US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 17 for "Vehicular state estimation apparatus, and method of controlling operation of active suspension apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,465, issued on June 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicular state estimation apparatus, and method of controlling operation of active suspension apparatus" was invented by Kazuya Konada (Saitama, Japan), Ryosuke Yamazaki (Saitama, Japan) and Takashi Yanagi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicular state estimation apparatus includes: a physical quantity detector configured to detect a physical quantity indicating behavior by the vehicle; a vehicle behavior estimator configured to estimate current behavior by the vehicle; a distance sensor that is configured to detect a value pertaining to a dis...