ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,770, issued on May 20, was assigned to DRIV Automotive Inc. (Northville, Mich.).

"Coil assembly for an actively controlled damping valve assembly of a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Deferme (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Oskar Rombo (Jonkoping, Sweden) and Simon Tingaker (Jonkoping, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a coil assembly for an actively controlled damping valve assembly of a vehicle, comprising: a mating surface for mating with an inner surface of a cavity of a valve housing of the damping valve assembly, and a fixation member configured for axially and rotationally locking the coil assembl...