ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,929, issued on March 3, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).
"Lock assembly for linear actuators" was invented by William Muster (Park Ridge, Ill.) and Joseph Kopecek (Santa Clarita, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a lock assembly for a linear actuator. The lock assembly includes a ball nut having one or more rows of lock protrusions extending axially from an external circumference of the ball nut. A lock rotor encircles the ball nut, the lock rotor having a row of ridge protrusions extending axially inward from an internal circumference. In a lock position, the ridge protrusions are arra...