ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,279, issued on March 24, was assigned to ETO MAGNETIC GmbH (Stockach, Germany).

"Control valve device for controlling damping characteristics, and hydraulic flow-through solenoid valve" was invented by Sebastian Bolling (Uhldingen-Muhlhofen, Germany), Timo Rigling (Moos, Germany) and Luca Veser (Radolfzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control valve device for a regulation of damping characteristics, in particular of shock absorbers, includes a valve slide and a hydraulic fail-safe unit which is configured, in a de-energized operation state, to provide a fail-safe damping characteristic of the valve slide, the damping ha...