US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on July 8 for "Chassis of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,259, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Chassis of a motor vehicle" was invented by Klaus Gell (Obernzell, Germany) and Johann Wimmer (Neuburg A. Inn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chassis of a utility motor vehicle has a double wishbone suspension having two independent wheel suspensions, each wheel suspensions has an upper control arm, a lower control arm, and a wheel carrier. The upper control arm is connected to two upper connection points on the vehicle body which define a first axis, the upper control arm being rotatable relative to the vehicle body about the first axi...