US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on June 17 for "Ball nut and ballscrew absolute position sensor for vehicle steering system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,709, issued on June 17, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Ball nut and ballscrew absolute position sensor for vehicle steering system" was invented by Christopher R. Case Myers (Freeland, Mich.), Eric D. Pattok (Frankenmuth, Mich.) and Travis L. Palmer (Frankenmuth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absolute position sensor includes a first gear having a plurality of teeth, a rotational position sensor operatively coupled to the first gear to be configured to detect a rotational position of the first gear, and a second gear including a spiral tooth engaged with the plurality of teeth of the ...