ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,762, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Constant velocity joint" was invented by Tom Schmitz (Hambach, Germany), Klaus Dietmar Rippstein (Ebelsbach, Germany), Lisa Baierl (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Ingo Schulz (Gerolzhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A constant velocity joint includes an outer part having a connecting portion and an opening portion and a plurality of axial grooves forming outer raceways, and an inner part having a plurality of axial grooves forming inner raceways. Each outer raceway and inner raceway form a raceway pair, a ball being disposed in each raceway pair. E...