ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,321, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Threaded cap for upper strut mount" was invented by Zachary Scott Wiedyke (Trenton, Mich.), Andrew Robert Wolf (Northville, Mich.) and Ryan Jacob Gardner (Woodhaven, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strut assembly for a vehicle may therefore be provided. The strut assembly may include a damper which may absorb loading along a longitudinal axis of the damper to reduce ride harshness, a lower strut mount which may operably couple the strut assembly to a control arm of the vehicle, and an upper strut mount which may operably couple the strut ass...