US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Feb. 18 for "Shock assembly with automatically adjustable ride height" (California, Colorado, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,048, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Shock assembly with automatically adjustable ride height" was invented by Nick D'Orazio (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Michael R. Labbe (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Rick Strickland (Dacula, Ga.) and Connor Randall (Salida, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock assembly with automatically adjustable ride height is disclosed. The assembly includes a main chamber including a fluid therein. A pump tube within the main chamber, the pump tube having a fluid flow path internal thereto, the pump tube disposed axially along a center of the main chamber. A damping piston couple...