US Patent Issued to ZF Automotive UK on Nov. 3 for "Handwheel actuator assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,292, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZF Automotive UK Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).

"Handwheel actuator assembly" was invented by David Julian Moule (Birmingham, Great Britain), Christos Prevezianos (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Harvey Smith (Birmingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handwheel actuator assembly for a steer-by-wire system of a vehicle comprises a housing, a shaft rotatably mounted to the housing, the shaft connectable to a handwheel, and one or more motors each having a stator and a rotor. The stator carries a plurality of phase windings and the rotor carries a plurality of magnet poles and is co...