ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,636, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).
"Coil assembly for an actively controlled damping valve" was invented by Fredrik Larsson (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Hakan Malmborg (Norrahammar, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actively controlled valve assembly and a method for assembling an actively controlled valve assembly comprising a coil housing, a valve housing, an intermediate member and a resilient locking member which is to be pre-tensioned into a pre-tensioning aperture, where the intermediate member comprises a guiding projection for pre-tensioning the resilient locking ...