ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,731, issued on June 17, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).
"Steering axle arrangement" was invented by Idris Poonawala (Pune, India), Praveen Malvi (Pune, India) and Paresh Joshi (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an axle are described. The axle may be a steering axle that is coupled to wheels that may move to change a steering angle of a vehicle. In one example, the axle includes two bearings that are arranged similarly so as to reduce a height of an axle. The two bearings may be tapered wheel bearings so that vertical and lateral wheel loads may be supported via an actual total of two...