ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,560, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kyb Europe GmbH, Sucursal En Navarra (Ororbia, Spain).

"Shock absorber with multiple damping laws" was invented by Javier Lizarraga Senar (Ororbia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorber with multiple damping laws comprises a regulating body (12) with a primary valve (14) and a secondary valve (15), and an activating shaft (21) with a plurality of channels (16, 17), the activating shaft (21) being housed in an axial orifice (36) of a piston pin (30) that incorporates a plurality of orifices (31, 32, 33) intended to align by rotation of the activating shaft (21) with the channels ...