MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517060835 A) filed by Flender Gmbh, Bocholt, Germany, on June 25, for 'method for producing a non-cylindrical plain bearing, plain bearing, holding tool, computer program product and data agglomerate.'

Inventor(s) include Dinter, Ralf Martin.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method is provided for producing a plain bearing, in particular for a planet gear of a planetary gear mechanism, comprising the steps of providing a substantially cylindrical sleeve (10) in a substantially stress-free starting state, inserting at least two ...