US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on April 22 for "Shock absorber device and vehicle comprising such a shock absorber device" (Swedish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,687, issued on April 22, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Shock absorber device and vehicle comprising such a shock absorber device" was invented by Anders Olsson (Torslanda, Sweden) and Yogesh Ramachandra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock absorber device for a vehicle, the shock absorber device comprising a shock absorber and a lifting device, the lifting device being configured to adjust a length of the shock absorber along the axis between a second length and the first length, the second length being less than the first length, wherein the lifting device has a released configuration wh...