US Patent Issued to Fox Factory on Oct. 7 for "Electronic external bypass" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,772, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Electronic external bypass" was invented by Bobby Smith (San Diego) and John Marking (El Cajon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic external bypass for a shock assembly is disclosed herein. The electronic external bypass has a compression side fluid connection, a rebound side fluid connection, and an external bypass fluid flow path physically separate from the shock assembly, the external bypass fluid flow path fluidly coupling the compression side fluid connection with the rebound side fluid connection. The electronic external bypass includes a so...