ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,063, issued on May 26, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Damper device" was invented by Taiki Watanabe (Echizen, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper device that includes: a first rotator; an intermediate member; a first seat; a second seat; a first elastic body; a third seat, a fourth seat, a second elastic body and a second rotator that includes a first support portion that supports the second seat and a second support portion that supports the fourth seat, and is provided so as to be rotatable about the rotation axis relative to the first rotator and the intermediate member."

The patent was filed on June 16, 2...