US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Vehicle suspension event recording and/or reporting system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,849, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle suspension event recording and/or reporting system" was invented by Calvin Trescott (Northville, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Michael Alan Mcnees (Flat Rock, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring system may include a sensor network operably coupled to suspension components of the vehicle and a controller operably coupled to the sensor network to determine a suspension event and vehicle speed, initiation angle and duration time assoc...