US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Fault detection of suspension height sensors within a semi-active vehicle suspension" (Michigan, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,684, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Fault detection of suspension height sensors within a semi-active vehicle suspension" was invented by Rick Dempsey (Milford, N.H.) and Jason Wallace Michener (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a suspension system of a vehicle may include a set of suspension height sensors that may be operably coupled to a set of wheels of the vehicle, a vehicle speed sensor that may be operably coupled to the vehicle; and a controller that may be operably coupled the set of suspension height sensors and the vehicle speed sensor. Th...