ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,218, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Suspension system with on-demand full damper capacity" was invented by Steven Thompson (Royal Oak, Mich.), Tom Sawarynski (Dearborn, Mich.), Adam Busack (Dearborn, Mich.), Jason Michener (Novi, Mich.) and Matthew Titus (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of adjustable dampers associated with suspension of respective ones of a plurality of wheels of the vehicle, a controller operably coupled to the adjustable dampers to selectively adjust a damping force of one or more of...