ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,307, issued on July 1, was assigned to DN Automotive Germany GmbH (Germany).
"Bush" was invented by Jan Geisen (Mendig, Germany), Jonathan Morton (Andernach, Germany), Christian Stanka (Montabaur, Germany), Michael Lines (Andernach, Germany), Werner Kaiser (Ruppach-Goldhausen, Germany) and SeonDoSeong Cho (Busan, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tuning element that can be integrally formed with a resilient body of a bush and configured to reduce dynamic stiffness increases associated with eigenmodes of the resilient body within a predetermined operational vibration frequency range. The tuning element may resemble an upstan...