ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,983, issued on May 12, was assigned to SmartWitness USA LLC (Schaumburg, Ill.).
"Vehicular load sensing system and method using tilt sensors" was invented by Robert Zwijze (Vriezenveen, Netherlands), Gerard Klaasse (Apeldoorn, Netherlands), Corbin J. Los (Enschede, Netherlands), Sietse Hendriks (Enschede, Netherlands) and Dennis Kamphuis (Hengelo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method calculates a vehicle load on a suspension system of a vehicle using a plurality of tilt angle sensors. The angle sensors are attached to the suspension system and configured to measure an angle with respect to gravity. A first an...