ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,885, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Planetary inner knuckle" was invented by Oscar Salud (Puebla, Mexico), Franklin May (Puebla, Mexico) and Ayyalraju Satyaseelan (Wooster, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary inner knuckle for a vehicle axle includes a housing, a sun gear, a planetary carrier and a plurality of planet gears. The housing includes a first housing portion arranged for fixing to a housing for the vehicle axle and a ring gear, rotationally fixed to the housing for the vehicle axle. The sun gear is arranged for rotationally fixing to an axle sh...