ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,957, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).
"Steering gear apparatus for a steer-by-wire steering system" was invented by Eduard Span (Cologne, Germany), Gregor Watzlawek (Dusseldorf, Germany), Frank Jaehde (Cologne, Germany), Yavuz Demir (Lunen, Germany) and Ali Al-Jabri (Gelsenkrichen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering gear apparatus for a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle has a sliding rod, which has a rack with a toothing, a gear section, which has a worm gear with a worm wheel and a drive pinion extending in an axial direction (A), a motor and a steering ang...