ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,789, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Selecting different suspension tunes via a manually operated switch" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.), Andrew Diao (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mike Fraguglia (Meadow Vista, Calif.), Evan Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and James T. Pickett (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to select and implement a suspension tune is disclosed. The system includes a memory configured to store a plurality of suspension tunes. A suspension controller configured to implement one of the plurality of suspension tunes for at least on...