US Patent Issued to D3 Innovation on March 11 for "Bicycle dropper seat post assembly with a narrow gas spring cartridge" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,788, issued on March 11, was assigned to D3 Innovation Inc. (Squamish, Canada).

"Bicycle dropper seat post assembly with a narrow 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 for supporting a bicycle seat may have an outer tube and an inner tube having a clearance portion and an upper end that includes an inward facing axial stop surface that defines a laterally extending abutment plane. A spring cartridge assembly has a cartridge cross-sectional that is less than 90% of the interior cross-sectional area of the clearance portion. A lower en...