US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works, KT Projektentwicklungs on May 27 for "Wheel unit of a vehicle and a valve assembly for a wheel unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,704, issued on May 27, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.) and KT Projektentwicklungs GmbH (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Wheel unit of a vehicle and a valve assembly for a wheel unit" was invented by Andreas Haering (Owingen, Germany), Bruno Schulze Selting (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany), Erwin Braun (Owingen, Germany) and Martin Spindler (Herdwangen-Schonach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel unit of a vehicle having a rim on which a tire is mounted, and having a hub which can rotate about an axis of rotation (T), wherein the hub includes a hub body in which a control element that is mounted such that ...