ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,466, issued on June 17, was assigned to thyssenkrupp Bilstein GmbH (Ennepetal, Germany) and thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany).

"Height-level adjustment system for a chassis of a motor vehicle" was invented by Jens Priess (Oberhausen, Germany) and Daniel Petrus Johannes Klabbers (Rees, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A height-level adjustment system for a chassis of a motor vehicle comprises a spring and a spring seat against which the spring lies at one end, the spring seat including a threaded sleeve which is attached coaxially with respect to the spring and has an external thread and a threaded ring, which is attached to ...