ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,806, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Vehicle suspension control system" was invented by Blane Frye (San Francisco), Soroush MohammadJafaryvahed (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aleksei Potov (Los Gatos, Calif.), Julian Pitt (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Harris Yong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Oruganti Prashanth Sharma (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for vehicle suspension control. An example method includes obtaining a road roughness map associated with a geographic area in which the vehicle is located, the road roughness map reflecting road condition metrics for road segments that f...