US Patent Issued to ZF Automotive Germany on July 21 for "Electric power steering system having a rack for moving wheels of a vehicle and method for the initial assembly of an electric power steering system of this kind" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,432, issued on July 21, was assigned to ZF Automotive Germany GmbH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Electric power steering system having a rack for moving wheels of a vehicle and method for the initial assembly of an electric power steering system of this kind" was invented by Timm Leuerer (Dusseldorf, Germany), Eduard Span (Cologne, Germany), Jens Petersen (Ratingen, Germany), Gregor Watzlawek (Dusseldorf, Germany), Frank Jaehde (Cologne, Germany), Yavuz Demir (Lunen, Germany), Frederick Wilms (Moenchengladbach, Germany) and Ali Al-Jabri (Ratingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an electric power steering syst...