ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,870, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electric suspension apparatus and electric motor controller" was invented by Satoshi Ohno (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric suspension apparatus includes a return prevention circuit and a discharge controller. The return prevention circuit is configured to operate in one of operation modes including a return prevention mode of preventing a current from flowing from power storage to a power supply and a return allowance mode of allowing a current to flow from the power storage to the power supply. The discharge controller is configured to de...