US Patent Issued to Advanced Suspension Technology on July 28 for "Damper with attached valve" (Spanish, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,924, issued on July 28, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Damper with attached valve" was invented by Jon Iriondo (Zaldibar, Spain), Stefan Deferme (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium) and Veronica Diez (Bilbao, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper includes an outer tube elongated along an axis, a cylinder elongated along the axis within the outer tube, a piston disposed in the cylinder and movable along the axis, an intermediate tube attached concentrically around the cylinder, a ring press-fitted around an outer diameter of the intermediate tube, and a valve attached to the outer tube. The inter...