US Patent Issued to Atieva on Nov. 4 for "Variable stiffness device to absorb backlash in splined components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,713, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Variable stiffness device to absorb backlash in splined components" was invented by Balazs Palfai (Newark, Calif.), Michael Abosch (San Francisco), Jiajun Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ahmad Abdullah Alawaji (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more variable stiffness devices may be positioned between the splined coupling of a pair of rotating mechanical components to reduce or substantially eliminate backlash during operation. The variable stiffness device may include a spring pin that exerts a variable biasing force on mating surfaces of the pair of ...