ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,018, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MUVIQ S.R.L. (Ivrea, Italy).
"Filtering pulley, system comprising such pulley and related control method" was invented by Gianluca Cariccia (Chieti, Italy), Andrea Guala (Chieti, Italy), Federico Domenico Licata (Chieti, Italy), Marco Cipelli (Chieti, Italy), Markus Armbrust (Chieti, Italy) and Gregorio Luciani (Chieti, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering pulley has a hub configured to be fixed to a shaft for rotation thereabout, a crown mounted coaxial and rotationally free on the hub, and a plurality of elastic groups arranged circumferentially with respect to the hub and to the cr...