ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,617, issued on March 31, was assigned to Prospira Corp. (Kawasaki city, Japan).

"Vibration isolation device" was invented by Zhixu An (Kawasaki city, Japan) and Yoshichika Okajima (Kawasaki city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this vibration isolation device, an elastic stopper (30) between a first attachment member (11) and a second attachment member (12) includes a first stopper portion (31) including a pair of stopper walls (31a) and a second stopper portion (32). The stopper walls are linked in a first direction by the second stopper portion and a linking portion (33) extending in the first direction. The first stopper ...