ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,887, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ClearMotion Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).
"Dynamically tunable combination reactive-proactive controller" was invented by William Graves (Somerville, Mass.), Marco Giovanardi (Melrose, Mass.) and Yu Jiang (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Combination reactive-proactive controllers and their use are described herein. In a first mode of operation, such controllers may rely simultaneously both a priori information about a road surface ahead of the vehicle obtained from a data base and real time information collected by one or more on-board sensors. Alternatively, in a second mode, such c...