US Patent Issued to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL on March 17 for "Smart steering kit for traditional steering gears" (Indiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,905, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Smart steering kit for traditional steering gears" was invented by Praful Bari (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit for connecting an output shaft of an electric motor to an input shaft of a steering gear of a steering system includes: a housing including: a central section having a first central section end and a second central section end, the central section defining an adapter assembly passage extending in a longitudinal direction between the first central section end and the second central section end, an electric moto...