US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on Dec. 23 for "Terrain classification and system health monitoring" (Ohio, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,705, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio).

"Terrain classification and system health monitoring" was invented by Keith F. Kresge (Columbus, Ohio), Robert D. Ward (Fairfax, Va.) and Jonathan Coyle (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for terrain classification and vehicle suspension sub-system health status indication. The system includes run-time terrain classification circuitry to determine a first terrain classification, for a vehicle travelling on a terrain segment, based on comparing a trained model to suspension sub-system sensor data and...