US Patent Issued to JTEKT Bearings North America on June 10 for "Ball screw assembly with integral force measurement" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,176, issued on June 10, was assigned to JTEKT Bearings North America LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Ball screw assembly with integral force measurement" was invented by Justin Brubaker (Greenville, S.C.) and Robert Lukasiewicz (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball screw assembly having a ball screw nut including an outer surface, an inner surface defining a central bore, and a ball track defined by the inner surface, a ball screw shaft including an outer surface defining a ball track, the ball screw shaft being disposed in the central bore so that the two ball tracks form a ball raceway, a first stopper disposed at a fi...