US Patent Issued to D3 Innovation on Jan. 28 for "Bicycle dropper seat post assembly with a bottom mounted gas spring cartridge" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,850, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to D3 Innovation Inc. (Squamish, Canada).

"Bicycle dropper seat post assembly with a bottom mounted gas spring cartridge" was invented by Jonathan Staples (Garibaldi Highlands, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dropper post assembly can include an outer tube and an inner tube with a lower end that is within the outer tube and include a tube engagement. A spring cartridge assembly can include: a cartridge tube providing a cylinder; a piston movably received within the cylinder to provide a first chamber a lower side of the piston and a second chamber between the piston; a cartridge rod; and a...