ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,019, issued on March 25, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Shock absorber" was invented by Seungjoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kwangduk Baek (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Juyoung Hwang (Iksan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a shock absorber. A shock absorber which is divided into a compression chamber and a rebound chamber by a piston valve in a tube having an interior filled with a fluid includes a first elastic member disposed in the compression chamber, a second elastic member disposed in the compression chamber to be spaced apart from th...