ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,444, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Load detection device" was invented by Dennis Pape (Ostercappeln, Germany), Julian Stratmann (Bad Essen, Germany), Christoph Werries (Bissendorf, Germany) and Michael Klank (Osnabruck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a load detection device and method using the same. In one example, the device includes a height-level measuring unit configured to determine a height level of a vehicle and to generate at least one height-level signal that characterizes the height level. A position-measuring unit is configured to determine the po...