US Patent Issued to Firestone Industrial Products on July 8 for "Flexible spring member and end closure assemblies as well as gas spring and gas damper assemblies including same" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,986, issued on July 8, was assigned to Firestone Industrial Products Co. LLC (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Flexible spring member and end closure assemblies as well as gas spring and gas damper assemblies including same" was invented by Edger ten Broeke (Sinderen, Netherlands) and Joshua R. Leonard (Noblesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible spring member and end closure assemblies include a flexible spring member-defining a spring chamber. An end closure body includes an outer peripheral surface portion and an elongated damping passage extending axially into end closure wall in a spiral arrangement about longitudinal axis. End ...