ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,072, issued on May 6, was assigned to DRiV Automotive Inc. (Skokie, Ill.).
"Air-spring assembly" was invented by Miguel Dhaens (Lommel, Belgium), Monzer Al Sakka (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Emilie Florence Simone Boulay (Cortil-Wodon, Belgium) and Vytautas Bucinskas (Vilnius, Lithuania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-spring assembly includes a flexible bellows extending from a top end to a bottom end and enclosing an air-spring chamber between the top end and the bottom end, a first panel partially defining the air-spring chamber and movable in response to a pressure of the air-spring chamber, an enclosure partially defining a wor...