ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,643, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for automated mitigation of rough road conditions" was invented by Amirreza Mirbeygi Moghaddam (North York, Canada), Mohammadali Shahriari (Markham, Canada), Kevin A. O'Dea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hassan Askari (Thornhill, Canada) and Edward Scott Pancost Jr. (Walled Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example vehicle system for automated mitigation of rough road conditions includes front wheels, a steering linkage, a torque sensor, and a vehicle control module configured to obtain a torque signal from the torqu...