US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Coilover damper with semi trailing arm on body on frame vehicle" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Coilover damper with semi trailing arm on body on frame vehicle" was invented by Shane Edward Foley (Livonia, Mich.), Jared Shroyer (Dearborn, Mich.), Peter Joseph Jargowsky (Canton, Mich.), Carl Montgomery (Madison Heights, Mich.), Jordi Vidauri Saiz (Mexico City), Geoff Lawrence Gordon (Novi, Mich.), Brandon Bay (White Lake, Mich.) and Michelle Darcy-Sharma (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle suspension system may include a semi trailing arm, a coilover damper and a distributed jounce response assembly. The semi trailing ar...