US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Aug. 25 for "Bicycle saddle with spring-based vibration isolation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,531, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Bicycle saddle with spring-based vibration isolation" was invented by Paul A. Gilmore (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Umesh N. Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ryohei Tsuruta (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael Paul Rowe (Pinckney, Mich.), Christian Arthur Trager (Canton, Mich.) and Brian J. Pinkelman (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bicycle saddle system can include a saddle body. The system can include a vibration isolator including a stack of a plurality of conical springs. An intermediate structure can be operativel...