ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,709, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Strain-wave gearing" was invented by Uwe Motzkau (Tauberbischofsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain-wave gearing, in particular for an industrial robot, includes a first assembly, to which a flexible gearing element provided with an external toothing and formed as a flanged bushing is fastened, and a wave generator, intended to deform the flexible gearing element, and an output-side assembly which has an internal toothing meshing with the external toothing of the flexible gearing element. The output-side assembly is...