ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,695, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Shock absorber" was invented by Kwangduk Baek (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seungjoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongin Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a shock absorber including a piston valve configured to be in a tube, a body valve installed at a lower side of the tube, a piston rod configured to having one end protruding while penetrating the piston valve, an upper guide member interposed between the piston valve and the body valve and having a plurality of upper guide fl...