ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,162, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUSPENSION RESEARCH INNOVATION B.V. (Oss, Netherlands).

"Shock absorber/damper device with a solenoid operated valve element and a magnetic flux-bypass nose for influencing magnetic forces during switching operations" was invented by Poul Skarra (Kouklia, Cyprus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorber/damper device includes a piston-cylinder assembly and a solenoid valve assembly of which one of the stationary and movable pole parts includes a flux-bypass nose that projects forwardly away from its first pole face and that on one side is delimited by a first sidewall that extends paralle...