ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,055, issued on June 23, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Electrical controller for force dampers" was invented by Saied Taheri (Blacksburg, Va.), Sheetanshu Tyagi (Blacksburg, Va.) and Yaswanth Siramdasu (Blacksburg, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an electrical controller for a damper body assembly that stores a damping policy and instructions implementing a control method based on the policy. The controller can receive a sensor output and transmits a signal to alter the contribution to a damping coefficient of the damper from each fluid mass as a function of the s...