US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 1 for "Active suspension component degradation determination" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,061, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Active suspension component degradation determination" was invented by Johannes Edren (Belmont, Calif.), James W. Fash (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ahditya Melkote (Foster City, Calif.) and Sharath Kumar Thirupathyswamy (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for determining a state of a pressurized chamber of a suspension of a vehicle, wherein the pressurized chamber comprises a hydraulic fluid chamber and a gas chamber separated by a piston. The state is determined by varying a pressure in the hydraulic fluid chamber and de...