ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,004, issued on March 25, was assigned to Accuride International GmbH (Diez, Germany).
"Modular rolling element cage" was invented by Christian Satony (Urbar, Germany), Christoph Neuhaus (Niederelbert, Germany), Sebastian Vermeulen (Birlenbach, Germany) and Desiree Schachner (Waldems, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rolling element cage for positioning a plurality of rolling elements between two rail elements of a telescopic rail or a linear guide which are mounted so as to be movable relative to each other is provided. The rolling element cage is composed or can be composed of two or more module elements which include a bas...