US Patent Issued to ZF Automotive Germany on Aug. 12 for "Electrically driven rack and pinion steering system of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,447, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ZF Automotive Germany GmbH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Electrically driven rack and pinion steering system of a motor vehicle" was invented by Eduard Span (Cologne, Germany), Yavuz Demir (Lunen, Germany), Rainer Engel (Krefeld, Germany) and Heinz-Dieter Heitzer (Heinsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically driven rack and pinion steering system of a motor vehicle has an axially displaceably mounted rack which transmits a steering movement for steered wheels of the motor vehicle, has an electric drive which provides a steering force and interacts with the rack, and has a housing wh...