ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,385, issued on April 14, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Shock absorber" was invented by Jordan Truitt (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Sean Lundberg (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Yohei Katayama (Hitachinaka, Japan), Takashi Tsukahara (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Shivanand Sankaran (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This shock absorber includes a tube, a piston rod having one end portion in an axial direction disposed in the tube and the other end portion in the axial direction disposed outside the tube, a piston assembly connected to an intermediate position of the piston rod in the axial direction, dividing an...