US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 8 for "System for determining damper velocity in a solid axle suspension" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,445, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System for determining damper velocity in a solid axle suspension" was invented by Joshua Rhodig (Brighton, Mich.) and Bart Ruc (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a damper velocity in solid axle suspension for a vehicle includes a solid axle, a pair of dampers corresponding to a left wheel and a right wheel of the vehicle, and a pair of distance sensors. The pair of distance sensors each generate sensor signals that are indicative of respective distances between respective portions of the frame of the vehicle an...