US Patent Issued to FCA US on Aug. 4 for "System and method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle in anticipation of changing road conditions" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,848, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"System and method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle in anticipation of changing road conditions" was invented by Toon Shin Tam (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Kushal Chirag Shah (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Benjamin L. Cottrill (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Peter W. LaVallee (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Kanishk Bakshi (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting a damper of a vehicle may include receiving a signal from a control, determining that one or more parameter thresholds are not met, increasing a compression resistance of one or more dampers from ...