ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,730, issued on March 3, was assigned to SUSPA GMBH (Altdorf, Germany).
"Damper, in particular friction damper" was invented by Andreas Pelczer (Altdorf, Germany), Marco Mayer (Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany), Sebastian Ertl (Edelsfeld, Germany) and Michael Weder (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damper, in particular for washing machines having a spin cycle, includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis and at least partially enclosing a housing inner space by housing walls, a tappet which can be displaced in the housing along the central longitudinal axis and is guided out of the housing, fastening members wh...