ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,217, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Accuride International GmbH (Diez, Germany).

"Linear guide system" was invented by Christoph Neuhaus (Niederelbert, Germany) and Christian Satony (Urbar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a linear guide system having: at least a first rail element and a second rail element, the first rail element and the second rail element being mounted linearly displaceably relative to each other in and counter to a extraction direction; an electric motor; an input shaft, the input shaft being operatively coupled to the electric motor such that the electric motor sets t...