US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Feb. 18 for "Method for protecting components of a steer-by-wire steering system, and steer-by-wire steering system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,248, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method for protecting components of a steer-by-wire steering system, and steer-by-wire steering system" was invented by Dominik Vogt (Meckenbeuren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for protecting the components of a steer-by-wire steering system, where the steer-by-wire steering system comprises a self-locking spindle drive in which the spindle is displaced linearly by driving a positionally fixed spindle nut in rotation. As a function of the speed of the vehicle, the linear displacement of the spindle relative to th...