ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,262, issued on May 20.
"Electromagnetic shock absorber" was invented by Kamil Podhola (Liberec, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electromagnetic shock absorber (ESA) with a shock absorbing unit having a rotor coupled with a conductive disc or drum, the system providing one or more transversely oriented magnetic fields by the shock absorbing unit generating eddy currents in the conductive disc or drum and exerting a Lorentz force opposite to the velocity of the conductive disc or drum; the rotor characterised by being in a conductive contact with an electric control circuit. The shock absorbing...