ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,012, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZHUZHOU TIMES NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD (Hunan, China).

"Hydraulic composite bushing, and sealing method for same" was invented by Xingwu Ding (Hunan, China), Jiling Bu (Hunan, China), Haitao Cheng (Hunan, China), Wensong Liu (Hunan, China), Bo Zou (Hunan, China), Jun Luo (Hunan, China), Feng Wang (Hunan, China), Jicao Zou (Hunan, China) and Zhangyang Xia (Hunan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic composite bushing includes: a core shaft, with a continuously spiral fluid channel groove; a rubber member, arranged around the core shaft, and having two recesses formed radially ou...