US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Aug. 4 for "Method and vehicle system for determining the state of the components of a chassis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,026, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and vehicle system for determining the state of the components of a chassis" was invented by Dennis Pape (Ostercappeln, Germany) and Tobias Pobandt (Osnabruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a condition of the components of an individual chassis includes preparing a first data set of vehicle data, which includes at least loading and/or wear data of the same or a similar chassis type over its entire lifetime, producing an individual second data set for a particular vehicle by determining the vehicle data as ...