ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,242, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BAR-PNEUMATISCHE STEUERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH (Dattenberg, Germany).
"Pivot actuator" was invented by Markus Kroll (Dattenberg, Germany) and Axel Kuhn (Niederbreitbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pivot actuator includes a housing, a drive shaft rotatably coupled to the housing, a piston within the housing and configured to engage the drive shaft so that movement of the piston along a longitudinal axis of the housing causes the drive shaft to pivot in a first direction about a drive axis within a first pivot angle to a first end position, a first stop element configured to adjustably sel...