ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,151, issued on March 18, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Trentino, Italy).
"Guide assembly comprising an elastic element" was invented by Davide Deimichei (Arco, Italy), Carlo Aste (Arco, Italy), Viviana Enei (Arco, Italy) and Efrem Rusconi (Arco, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide assembly, comprising: an outer guide member; an inner guide member at least partially enclosed by the outer guide member, the outer guide member and the inner guide member delimiting a space therebetween; an elastic member disposed in the space, enclosing the inner guide member and being compressible along an axial direction; a support membe...