ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,113, issued on Aug. 19.
"Motor vehicle adjustment drive having angle measuring sensor" was invented by Bernhard Hubert Schadler (Gersdorf an der Feistritz, Austria) and Martin Palvoelgyi (Markt Hartmannsdorf, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Adjustment drive includes an electric motor, a transmission, at least one engaging element, and a resilient element. The transmission has a self-locking transmission stage, a power takeoff, and a safety coupling that separates the self-locking transmission stage from an external torque in response to an excessive external torque introduced via the power takeoff. The safety coupling has a mo...