US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle with driver assistance impact load reduction for abrupt roadway grade changes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,642, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle with driver assistance impact load reduction for abrupt roadway grade changes" was invented by Md Abir Hasan (Troy, Mich.), Abu Ashraf (Troy, Mich.) and Patrick J Monsere (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes automatically monitoring a path in proximity to a vehicle to detect an abrupt grade change along the path and ahead of the vehicle. The grade change is determined to be abrupt depending on a predetermined threshold of a minimum change in grade height. Upon receiving, by processor circuitry forming at leas...