US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on July 14 for "Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,157, issued on July 14, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control system" was invented by Atsushi Taguchi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Ryusuke Hirao (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ECU includes a posture stability control portion configured to determine an instruction value for controlling a variable damper according to an input change in a posture of a vehicle, a ride comfort control portion configured to determine an instruction value for controlling the variable damper according to an input sprung vibration of the vehicle, and an instruction value calcula...