US Patent Issued to Universal Air on March 18 for "Adjustable accumulator for selectively modifying spring rate of gas spring system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,136, issued on March 18, was assigned to Universal Air Inc. (San Bernardino, Calif.).

"Adjustable accumulator for selectively modifying spring rate of gas spring system" was invented by Daniel Zachary Ratcliff (Brea, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accumulator defines an accumulator volume that can be placed into communication with a spring chamber of a gas spring. A working volume of the gas spring is the sum of the spring chamber volume and the accumulator volume. The accumulator can be configured so that the accumulator volume can be selectively increased or decreased as desired, thus modifying performance of the associa...