ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,924, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle control device" was invented by Hiroki Furuta (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes an active suspension having an actuator disposed between a carrier member and a vehicle body, a state detection device that detects state information that is information about a current or future acceleration applied to the carrier member, a controller that supplies a control current to the actuator such that, when the up-down direction position of the carrier member is not a preset zero point, the up-down direction posit...