US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Dec. 16 for "Hydraulically-adjustable preload and/or cross-over" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,867, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Hydraulically-adjustable preload and/or cross-over" was invented by Connor Randall (Salida, Colo.) and Regan Woelfel (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular hydraulically-adjustable preload and/or cross-over system. The system includes a housing configured to couple with a main damper cylinder, the housing including a slave cylinder within a portion of a slave cylinder chamber, the slave cylinder telescopically movable with respect to the housing; a fluid chamber; and a fluid port configured to provide a fluid flow for the fluid chamber, ...