US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on April 15 for "Method for determining an axle load on a mechanically suspended vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,285, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Method for determining an axle load on a mechanically suspended vehicle" was invented by Johann Lucas (Sehnde, Germany), Andreas Thimm (Sarstedt, Germany), Sebastian Jermis (Springe, Germany) and Britta Warnecke (Barsinghausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanically suspended vehicle has a travel measurement device (9), a control unit (10) and an algorithm stored in the control unit (10). The algorithm performs a method for determining an axle load. In a first test routine a level signal of a travel measurement device is acquired and evaluated...