ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,739, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MUVIQ S.R.L. (Ivrea, Italy).
"Filtering pulley" was invented by Gianluca Cariccia (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Andrea Guala (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Stefano Amadio (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy) and Jacopo Spinelli (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering pulley has a hub adapted to be fixed to a shaft rotating around an axis (A) and a crown mounted in a rotationally free coaxial way with respect to the hub. The crown has a profile configured to cooperate with a mechanical transmission element, and the hub has a main portion configured to connect the hub to...