US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Aug. 25 for "Integrated active valve assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,257, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Integrated active valve assembly" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.) and William M. Becker (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated active valve assembly is disclosed. The integrated active valve assembly including a suspension controller module, an active shock assembly, and a wire to communicatively couple the suspension controller module with the active shock assembly such that the suspension controller module can send a signal via the wire to modify a damping characteristic of the active shock assembly."

The patent wa...