ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,088, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Instant suspension mode differentiation" was invented by Jacob Malinowski (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), David Steven Mayes Houser (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Maxwell Koff (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Dante Ashok Leo Khandelwal (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to enable a user of a vehicle to perceive instant suspension mode differentiation. An instruction is generated to change generating an instruction to change from a first vehicle setting to a second vehicle setting. The first vehicle setting comprises a first pa...