ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,420, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Steering system for use in turning steerable vehicle wheels" was invented by Ryan Noerenberg (Krefeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system for use in turning steerable vehicle wheels includes a gear in a housing and rotatable relative to the housing via an electric motor. A planetary gear stage is in the housing and has a sun gear, a planetary gear meshed with the sun gear, and a carrier connected to the planetary gear. Rotation of the gear urges the sun gear to rotate about an axis. Rotation of the sun gear urges the plane...