ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,260, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GKN Driveline International GmbH (Lohmar, Germany).
"Counter track joint" was invented by Stephan Maucher (Siegburg, Germany), Thomas Weckerling (Sankt Augustin, Germany), Rolf Cremerius (Sankt Augustin, Germany), Ida Benner (Troisdorf, Germany), Anna Gremmelmaier (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and Hans-Jurgen Post (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counter track joint comprises an outer joint part, an inner joint part, first pairs of tracks widening towards the opening side of the outer joint part when the counter track joint is aligned, and second pairs of tracks widening towards the ...