ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,328, issued on April 15, was assigned to MUVIQ S.R.L. (Ivera, Italy).
"Filtering pulley" was invented by Gianluca Cariccia (Ivrea, Italy), Andrea Guala (Ivrea, Italy), Stefano Amadio (Ivrea, Italy) and Jacopo Spinelli (Ivrea, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filtering pullies with a hub adapted to be fixed to a rotating shaft, a crown mounted coaxially and rotationally free on the hub, at least one elastic group arranged circumferentially with respect to the hub and the crown and interposed, each, between a pair of first elements integral with the hub and between a pair of second elements integral with the crown are disclosed. The...