US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Nov. 11 for "Steering rack bending limiter and steering assembly therewith" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,464, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Steering rack bending limiter and steering assembly therewith" was invented by Adam Zakrzewski (Tychy, Poland), Marcin J. Nakielski (Tychy, Poland), Jaroslaw B. Bujak (Tychy, Poland) and Konrad Kubik (Tychy, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering assembly includes a housing having a bore, and a non-plastic support ring disposed within the bore. The non-plastic support ring has an annular wall with an outer periphery and an inner periphery. A plurality of rack engagement features extend radially inwardly from the inner periphery of...