US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on July 1 for "System, method and apparatus for metallic gear hub with metallic teeth having outer polymer layer" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,317, issued on July 1, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"System, method and apparatus for metallic gear hub with metallic teeth having outer polymer layer" was invented by Jeffrey E. Beyerlein (Frankenmuth, Mich.), Alan G. Turek (Mayville, Mich.), Himadri Shastry (Saginaw, Mich.) and Jason T. Rutkiewicz (Freeland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system, method and apparatus for a gear are disclosed. For example, a metallic gear hub can include an axis of rotation and metallic gear teeth. The metallic gear teeth can be smaller than a final gear teeth size of the gear. The metal...