ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,274, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Compliant mechanism for suspension height sensor" was invented by Douglas Nordman (San Francisco), Peter Hawkins (Cupertino, Calif.) and Julian Pitt (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant mechanism is provided for monitoring the position of a suspension of a vehicle. The compliant mechanism can include a body for coupling to both an angle sensor and the suspension of the vehicle. The body can have at least two first portions and at least one second portion. The second portion is coupled to both of the two first portions and is more flexible ...