US Patent Issued to Advanced Suspension Technology on Dec. 23 for "Protection plugs with bidirectional pressurizing functionality for shock absorber" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,921, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Advanced Suspension Technology LLC (Northville, Mich.).

"Protection plugs with bidirectional pressurizing functionality for shock absorber" was invented by Frederik Baldoni (Borgloon, Belgium) and Tom Vandersmissen (Limburg, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic port protection plug for insertion into a hydraulic port in a shock absorber assembly, where the hydraulic port protection plug comprises a cap portion with a disc-shaped end wall and a tubular body that extends from the cap portion to define an open-ended cavity. The open-ended cavity extends within the tubular body of the...