ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,627, issued on June 24, was assigned to ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Diez, Germany).

"Slide for a linear guide, and linear guide comprising such a slide" was invented by Patrick Neidhofer (Seelbach, Germany), Christoph Neuhaus (Niederelbert, Germany) and Thomas Quirein (Diez, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a slide for a linear guide which has the slide and a rail element with two running surfaces facing each other. The slide has a main part and a plurality of rolling bodies, and the plurality of rolling bodies are received on the main part such that the plurality of rolling bodies can roll at least on...