ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,717, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Suspension control system" was invented by Hiroki Furuta (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a suspension control system, an actuator adjusts a suspension stroke. An acquisition unit acquires, from a road surface data map in which a road surface displacement-associated value associated with vertical displacement of a road surface is associated with a position, a road surface displacement-associated value at a predicted passing position of a control target wheel a predetermined time after a present time. A calculation unit calculates a target cont...