US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Feb. 10 for "Electrically driveable steering axle and vehicle" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,052, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Electrically driveable steering axle and vehicle" was invented by Andreas Pfeffer (Viechtach, Germany), Franz Reitinger (Esternberg, Austria), Alexander Muhlbauer (Windorf, Germany) and Tobias Brilka (Iggensbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electrically drivable steering axle (10) having an axle housing (11), an electric motor (12), a transmission (13), a differential (14) with a first output shaft (18) and a second output shaft (18'), a first wheel head (15), a second wheel head (16) and a steering linkag...