ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,007, issued on April 29, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Cage segment for a segmented cage" was invented by Berthold Beyfuss (Wasserlosen-Kaisten, Germany), Hans-Juergen Friedrich (Konigsberg-Romershofen, Germany), Alfred Radina (Poppenlauer, Germany), Maximilian Soellner (Bundorf, Germany), Jonas Schierling (Hassfurt, Germany) and Martin Kemmer (Werneck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing cage segment for a segmented bearing cage includes a plurality of walls that define a pocket configured to receive a rolling element and an insert element captively retained in an opening in a first one of the p...