ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,703, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to WAY ASSAUTO SRL (Asti, Italy).

"Method for controlling variable damping suspensions" was invented by Fabio Cotto (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a suspension system for a vehicle to obtain optimal parameters for the damping coefficients of the vehicle suspension that minimize acceleration along a heave axis, angular acceleration around a roll axis and angular acceleration around a pitch axis is provided. These parameters may be recorded during the tuning phase or may also be continuously obtained during use of the vehicle by an end user. Also disclosed is a s...