US Patent Issued to ASTEMO on July 28 for "Road-surface inclined-state detection method and vehicle control method" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,717, issued on July 28, was assigned to ASTEMO LTD. (Tokyo).

"Road-surface inclined-state detection method and vehicle control method" was invented by Benjamin Kruse (Sunbury, Ohio) and Michael Sadie (Sunbury, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road-surface inclined-state detection method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a vehicle state where pitching moment causing front wheels of a vehicle to move upward in a vertical direction relative to rear wheels of the vehicle is applied to the vehicle, and where rear suspensions suspending the rear wheels are stroked in a compressing direction, a count step of starting counting a...