ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,104, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Cylindrical roller bearing" was invented by Roger Daniel Emlind (Alingsas, Sweden), Arne Lars Jonas Kullin (Landvetter, Sweden), Harald Metz (Randersacker, Germany) and Markus Volkmuth (Werneck-Zeuzleben, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical roller bearing includes at least one outer ring with a raceway, an inner ring with a raceway, and a plurality of cylindrical roller elements rollable along the raceways of the inner ring and the outer ring. The raceway of the inner ring has an at least partly crowned profile, the crowned profile having...