US Patent Issued to SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS on June 3 for "Trailing link cycle wheel suspension assembly having gas pistons with unequal gas piston areas" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,381, issued on June 3, was assigned to SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS INC. (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

"Trailing link cycle wheel suspension assembly having gas pistons with unequal gas piston areas" was invented by David Weagle (Edgartown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suspension assembly for a cycle having improved stability includes a steering fork having a steering axis, a first arm, and a second arm, each of the first arm and the second arm having a fixed pivot and a shock pivot, the space between the first arm and the second arm defining a wheel opening. A shock link has a shock link fixed pivot and a shock link floating piv...