ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,049, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Traction determination by changing wheel normal force" was invented by Luke Birch (Coventry, Great Britain), Dennis Lausecker (Coventry, Great Britain), James Kelly (Coventry, Great Britain) and Syed Asad Ali (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) to determine relative traction levels, the control system comprising one or more controller (301), wherein the control system is configured to (908): control the active suspension system to cha...