ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,063, issued on May 6, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Linear actuator" was invented by Reiner Knoell (Burgsinn, Germany), Marco Knoell (Burgsinn, Germany) and Michael Goldbach (Lohr A. Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear actuator having a threaded drive including a nut connected to a cantilever tube and a leadscrew coupled to a motor, so that, by rotation of the leadscrew, the threaded nut and the cantilever tube are linearly movable, and, regardless of the position of the cantilever tube, one end the leadscrew projects into the cantilever tube and is connected to a piston which divides an i...