ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,271, issued on July 22, was assigned to KA Group AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method for determining a force transmission contact point of an electric clutch actuator" was invented by Jimmy Chau (Oslo, Norway), Ole Jonny Waerp (Kongsberg, Norway) and Jimmy Engman (Kongsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for determining a force transmission contact point of an actuating element (6) of an electric clutch actuator which comprises a linear drive assembly configured to linearly move the actuating element (6) towards a preload plunger (10) which is linked by a pushrod (12) to a clutch le...