ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,312, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG Bamberg (Bamberg, Germany).
"Spindle drive" was invented by Nadja Rehm (Coburg, Germany) and Michael Buchheim (Bamberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spindle drive for a closure element of a vehicle for generating drive movements along a geometric spindle axis, having a tube-like drive housing and a spindle unit with a spindle guide bush and a spindle movably mounted therein are provided, a first drive connection and a second drive connection which is linearly displaceable with respect to the latter being provided to generate the drive movements, a spi...