ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,200, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to WITTENSTEIN SE (Igersheim, Germany).
"Coaxial transmission with plain bearing" was invented by Heiko Schreiber (Doberschau, Germany), Michael Schmidt (Reichenberg, Germany) and Thomas Bayer (Igersheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gearbox (1) having a tooth carrier (40) for receiving teeth (7) of a gear ring that are disposed about a rotation axis (5) of the gearbox, wherein the teeth (7) are disposed in the tooth carrier (11) so as to be displaceable and guided in the radial direction, a cam disk (20) which is rotatable about the rotation axis (5) and for driving the teeth (7) in the...