US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on Sept. 1 for "Ball-screw drive for an actuator assembly, an actuator assembly, and a method for producing a ball-screw drive" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,617, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Ball-screw drive for an actuator assembly, an actuator assembly, and a method for producing a ball-screw drive" was invented by Volker Knop (Ulmen, Germany), Nicholas Alford (Waldesch, Germany), Werner Seibert (Kammerforst, Germany) and Christoph Beuerle (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball-screw drive for an actuator assembly of a vehicle brake is disclosed, comprising a rotatably mounted recirculating ball screw on which a screw nut which is closed on one side is mounted, at least one thread being formed on the circumferential surf...