ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,344, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BeijingWest Industries Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Hydraulic damper with a hydromechanical compression stop assembly" was invented by Mateusz Szymon Sarapata (Wysoka, Poland), Michal Jerzy Popielarz (Cracow, Poland) and Dominik Kasprzyk (Debica, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic damper comprises a main tube, a piston assembly, a base valve assembly, and a compression stop assembly. The compression stop assembly includes an insert defining an inner chamber, and a sleeve displaceable along with the main piston assembly and configured to be slidably introduced inside the inner chamber. ...