US Patent Issued to Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen on Jan. 13 for "Element and method for compensation of tolerances and/or gap widths of a device and engine, assembly method for a shaft/hub connection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,160, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Element and method for compensation of tolerances and/or gap widths of a device and engine, assembly method for a shaft/hub connection" was invented by Andreas Hupfer (Eching, Germany) and Niels Herter (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element for compensation of tolerances and/or gap widths of a device, having a main body which has at least one annular cross-sectional portion, wherein the cross-sectional portion has, in its peripheral direction, at least one auxetic portion which exhibits auxetic behavior in a radial direction o...