US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Sept. 8 for "Steering shaft assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,713, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Steering shaft assembly" was invented by Matthew L. Messing (Saginaw, Mich.), Douglas M. Schneider (Frankenmuth, Mich.), Steven R. Burk (Frankenmuth, Mich.), Robert J. Smith (Midland, Mich.), Phillip D. Beckman Jr. (Owosso, Mich.) and Bruce D. Kniebbe (Birch Run, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering shaft assembly includes a shaft having a first end region including a nose, a male spline region coupleable with a female spline region of a clamp yoke, a ring flag seat adjacent said nose, and a first ring flag locating feature betwe...