ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,299, issued on July 1, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Shaft coupling and shaft for the shaft coupling" was invented by Jan Haupt (Kurten, Germany), Moritz Abbenhaus (Troisdorf, Germany), Thomas Weckerling (St. Augustin, Germany) and Maximilian Werkhausen (Overath, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shaft coupling for the switchable connection of a first shaft to a second shaft arranged coaxially thereto, comprises the first shaft, which has on a circumferential surface a plurality of first ball tracks extending along an axis of rotation over at least a first section and a second section, the fi...