ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,682, issued on July 15, was assigned to AFAG HOLDING AG (Zell, Switzerland).
"Pneumatic device with a movably mounted piston" was invented by Fabian Bachmann (Kriens, Switzerland), Michael Schmid (Bern, Switzerland) and Benedikt Heigenhauser (Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic device having a pneumatic cylinder and a piston movably mounted in the pneumatic cylinder to divide an interior of the pneumatic cylinder into two chambers. The chambers are connected to a line network having a valve assembly. The line network, in a plurality of operating states of the valve assembly serving for venting the respective ...