ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,248, issued on June 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Piston actuation device" was invented by Matthias Greiner (Simmozheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piston actuation device for the supply of a pressure medium in a pressure medium circuit of a brake system of a motor vehicle. A piston actuation device includes a piston actuable by a spindle drive to execute a back-and-forth translation movement in the direction of a piston guidance axis. The spindle drive has a spindle nut and a spindle that cooperates with the spindle nut via a screw drive. The screw drive converts a rotation movement of the ...