ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,977, issued on March 18, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for damping a vehicle" was invented by Anton Albinsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Axel Villandseie (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Gobi Kumarasamy (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for damping a vehicle, including: receiving external load data for the vehicle; receiving at least one damper velocity of a damper of the vehicle; providing an optimization model configured to describe a relation between external load data for a vehicle, at least one damper velocity of a damper of a vehicle, and at least one damper for...