ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,946, issued on June 23, was assigned to ContiTech AG (Hannover, Germany).
"Air spring" was invented by Ziga Janhar (Smlednik, Slovenia), Peter Heberle (Kranj, Slovenia), Matej Kosir (Trzic, Slovenia), Brane Stojko (Sencur, Slovenia), Francesc Bosch-Masgrau (Wunstorf, Germany), Carsten Hansen (Peine, Germany) and Simon Oman (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air spring with an air spring rolling bellows made of elastomer material with reinforcing layers embedded within the rolling bellows wall, the air spring being clamped in between a sprung and an unsprung mass, and the air spring rolling bellows, at least at one...