US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Sept. 8 for "Electric power steering system with a ball-screw assembly" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,910, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Electric power steering system with a ball-screw assembly" was invented by Benjamin Warren Schoon (Lafayette, Ind.) and Caleb Seth Crum (Rossville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power steering assembly includes an electric motor, a gearset, and a ball-screw assembly. The gearset couples the electric motor and a ball nut of the ball-screw assembly such that the electric motor is operable to rotate the ball nut relative to the ball shaft. A plurality of bearings are circulatable through a helical track, which is defined between ...