US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Dec. 9 for "Seat post" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,961, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Seat post" was invented by Sante Pelot (Freiburg, Germany), David M. Haugen (Pacific Grove, Calif.), Wes Allinger (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mario Galasso (Sandy Hook, Conn.) and Andrew Laird (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including: a seat post; a user interface operatively connected with the seat post, the user interface configured for receiving instructions associated with a height of the seat post and for communicating received instructions to at least one controller coupled with a motive source of the seat post; and a valve assembly in ...