US Patent Issued to ILJIN USA on March 17 for "Synthetic elastomeric air spring without reinforcing fibers" (Michigan, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,680, issued on March 17, was assigned to ILJIN USA Corp. (Novi, Mich.).

"Synthetic elastomeric air spring without reinforcing fibers" was invented by Alan Coulthard (Flat Rock, Mich.), Jeremy Mercer (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Michael L. Crabtree (Arvada, Colo.), Ken Casagrande (Commerce Township, Mich.), Alan Wall (Novi, Mich.), Adrian Thompson (Beverly Hills, Mich.) and Ruben Jasso (Woodhaven, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring assembly for a vehicle is provided. The spring assembly may include a piston, and a sleeve with a noncircular cross section, the sleeve made from an unreinforced synthetic elastomeric material and...