US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Aug. 26 for "Optimized ball bearing and method of designing an optimized ball bearing" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,751, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Optimized ball bearing and method of designing an optimized ball bearing" was invented by Tom Schmitz (Hambach, Germany) and Kyle J. Monaghan (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing a ball bearing includes providing a value of a shaft outside diameter and a load. An inside diameter of a bearing inner ring is determined based on the value of the shaft outside diameter. A ball size having a specific ball diameter is selected and a number of the balls of the selected standard ball size required to support the load is determined....