ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,386, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY Ltd. (Komaki, Japan).
"Vibration damping device" was invented by Hiroki Kondo (Komaki, Japan) and Kenji Oki (Komaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration damping device including a main unit including first and second attachments connected by a rubber body, the second attachment including metallic first and second connectors inserted into metallic first and second grooves of a bracket. The metal is exposed on outer and lower faces of the first connector to be in metal-to-metal contact with groove-inside bottom and lower faces of the first groove. An upper urg...