US Patent Issued to DRIV Automotive on Sept. 9 for "Hydraulic fluid reservoir including a flexible housing" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,694, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DRIV Automotive Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).

"Hydraulic fluid reservoir including a flexible housing" was invented by Carl Olofsson (Zepperen, Belgium), Stein Slootmaekers (Wellen, Belgium) and Joris VanWezemael (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic fluid reservoir fluidly couple to a shock absorber. The hydraulic fluid reservoir having a flexible housing, a fluid channel, and a pump provided along the fluid channel. The flexible housing having a flexible wall defining a first interior, with the first interior a variable volume of hydraulic fluid and no air. The fluid channel flu...