US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 2 for "Shock service advisory algorithm" (Michigan, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,362, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Shock service advisory algorithm" was invented by Jason Wallace Michener (Novi, Mich.) and Rick Dempsey (Milford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an operation state of a suspension damper of a vehicle that may include receiving first data, determining whether the vehicle may be in a steady state condition based on the first data, and responsive to the vehicle being determined to be in the steady state condition, determining damping oscillation magnitude data for a set of suspension dampers based on second data. The meth...