ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,319, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEWA GMBH (Leonberg, Germany).
"Crown wheel gear" was invented by Harald Krieg (Aalen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a crown wheel gear, having a housing, a pinion shaft rotatably mounted relative to the housing, a pinion connected to the pinion shaft, a crown wheel shaft rotatably mounted relative to the housing, and a crown wheel connected to the crown wheel shaft, wherein the pinion and the crown wheel are in toothed engagement with one another. In this case, the crown wheel and the crown wheel shaft are arranged rotatably but fixed in position relative to the...