ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,547, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Tire test stand with a hexapod assembly and a belt" was invented by Jens Eisenbeiss (Fuerstenzell, Germany) and Roland Bosl (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, and a hexapod assembly having six linear drive elements, each of the six linear drive elements being attached at a first end to the frame and at a second end to the tire holder. A tire can be attached to the tire holder so as to be rotatable about its axis of rotation. The test stand also has two rotatably mounted d...