US Patent Issued to BUCHER MUNICIPAL on July 14 for "Vehicle axle and its arrangement on a vehicle" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,450, issued on July 14, was assigned to BUCHER MUNICIPAL AG (Niederweningen, Switzerland).

"Vehicle axle and its arrangement on a vehicle" was invented by Alexander Zipes (Ennetbaden, Switzerland) and Markus Nyffenegger (Gebenstorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle axle having: a rigid axle body; two steering knuckles, each articulated pivotably about a respective steering axis to an axial end region of the axle body relative to a longitudinal axis parallel to the track direction; a main steering actuator device formed as a pressure-medium-operated piston-cylinder assembly having two piston rods that extend parall...