ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,219, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Wheel-to-surface contact patch force variation" was invented by Anesh Mistry (Coventry, Great Britain), Luke Birch (Coventry, Great Britain), Sam Brown (Coventry, Great Britain), Dennis Lausecker (Coventry, Great Britain), Syed Asad Ali (Coventry, Great Britain), William Burdock (Coventry, Great Britain) and James Kelly (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system (300) for controlling an active suspension system (104) of a vehicle (100), the active suspension system comprising suspension actuators (502), the control...