ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,387, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Tyre test stand with a hexapod arrangement" was invented by Thomas Dwolinski (Neuburg am Inn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire test stand includes a frame, a tire holder on which a tire can be mounted, a hexapod arrangement with six linear drive elements, and a rolling surface unit with a rolling surface. In a starting configuration, the linear drive elements are arranged so that at least one of the linear drive elements is arranged such that, when the at least one linear drive element exerts a force on the tire, the greatest force...