ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,213, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Hot-start suspension tune" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.), Evan Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Evan Power (Burnaby, Canada), Michael Fraguglia (Meadow Vista, Calif.), Zachary Michaels (Vancouver, Canada) and Jordi Cortes (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hot-start suspension tune system and method is disclosed. The method initiates a starting suspension tune for a vehicle. The starting suspension tune is maintained until a predefined threshold is reached. After the predefined threshold is reached, the starting suspensi...