US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Sept. 8 for "Internal floating piston" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,742, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Internal floating piston" was invented by Matthew Stewart (Buford, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a shock absorber comprising a cylinder, a rod, a main damping piston, the main damping piston coupled to the rod and configured for operation within the cylinder, the main damping piston configured to divide the cylinder into a compression side and a rebound side, a body cap disposed at one end of the cylinder, wherein the body cap has a second inner diameter greater than an inner diameter of the cylinder, an internal floating piston disposed...