ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,682, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle control device" was invented by Hiroki Furuta (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes: a carrier member on which an occupant sits or lies; an active suspension disposed between the carrier member and a vehicle body; a state detection device configured to detect state information that is information on current or future acceleration applied to the carrier member; a controller configured to control the active suspension based on the state information to change a carrier attitude; and an occupant informatio...