ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,859, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BRIST AXLE SYSTEMS S.R.L. (Montichiari, Italy).
"Independent suspension" was invented by Filippo De Cesari (Mazzano, Italy), Danilo Bonera (Collebeato, Italy) and Ahmet Haciyunus (Uskudar Istanbul, Turkey).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An independent suspension for vehicles, in particular for transporting people and/or materials, including a hub defining a rotation axis of the wheel of the vehicle, an electric motor, operatively connected to the hub and configured to rotate the hub and a support element operatively connected to the hub and developing, with a planar shape, along its own main dev...