ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,072, issued on March 3.

"Active suspension vehicle and control method" was invented by Fan Zhang (Zibo, China), Jiguo Yang (Zibo, China), Xuejian Jiao (Zibo, China), Lijun Li (Zibo, China) and Xianyue Gang (Zibo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses an active suspension vehicle and a control method controlling the same. Each wheel of the vehicle is equipped with a telescopically adjustable active actuator. The control method begins by constructing a load and deformation joint control matrix of the vehicle and measuring the current vehicle parameters; then determining vertical displacement excitation of...