US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 25 for "Eddy current damper with asymmetrical forces" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,873, issued on March 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Eddy current damper with asymmetrical forces" was invented by Alireza Fatemi (Canton, Mich.), Thomas W. Nehl (Shelby Township, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Brian K Saylor (South Lyon, Mich.), Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Anthony Michael Coppola (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle, suspension system and method of dampening a force on the suspension system is disclosed. The suspension system includes a damper having a first damping element and a second damping element configured to rotate rela...