US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on Aug. 18 for "Electric power steering gear with an anti-rotate feature" (Indiana, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,321, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Electric power steering gear with an anti-rotate feature" was invented by Benjamin Schoon (Lafayette, Ind.), Caleb Crum (Rossville, Ind.), Zach Robert Volmering (Noblesville, Ind.) and Kevin Boyle (Hermitage, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering assembly includes a housing. An interior wall of a cylindrical portion of the housing defines a groove that extends in an axial direction and having inwardly tapered walls. A ball screw disposed in the housing defines a hole in a radial direction. An anti-rotational pin having a tapered end is d...