US Patent Issued to On Top Safety Equipment on May 26 for "Force damper" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,062, issued on May 26, was assigned to On Top Safety Equipment LLC (Cheektowaga, N.Y.).

"Force damper" was invented by John J. Carroccia (Orchard Park, N.Y.) and Jeffery L. Murray (Hamburg, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force damper arranged to progressively arrest a first force imparted by an object moving in a first direction, the force damper including a housing, a driving member and first and second resilient members. The housing includes a first end and a second end, the first end having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface and a first connection point secured to the first surface, and the second e...