ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,897, issued on May 13, was assigned to MUVIQ S.R.L. (Ivrea, Italy).
"Filtering pulley" was invented by Gianluca Cariccia (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Miriam Nardone (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Andrea Guala (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy), Gilberto Delle Rose (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy) and Federico Licata (San Bernardo d'Ivrea, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filtering pulley for an accessory transmission of an internal combustion engine that has a hub, a crown, a filtering unit for transmitting the torque interposed between the hub and the crown, a torsion spring, a carrier, and a torque limiting joint. The torque limiti...