ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,018, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NIHON PLAST Co. LTD. (Fujinomiya, Japan).

"Vibration suppression apparatus" was invented by Ryo Kawaguchi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration suppression apparatus includes housing, and shaft body that is held by housing and sets a movable shaft. Shaft body has a longitudinal shaft body main body portion, and flange portion as a flat portion that protrudes from shaft body main body portion in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction. Housing has a tubular housing main body portion that includes hole portion, into which shaft body main body portion is inserted,...