US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on March 4 for "Bearing unit with rolling bodies for use in the food and beverage industry" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,506, issued on March 4, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing unit with rolling bodies for use in the food and beverage industry" was invented by Andrea A. Bertolini (Carrara, Italy), Alessio Nebbia Colomba (Pisa, Italy), Fausto Baracca (Massa, Italy) and Pasquale Frezza (Aversa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing unit with rolling bodies for use in the food and beverage industry, for example. The bearing unit may have a high resistance to wear and to corrosion and may have a radially outer ring, stationary, a radially inner ring, rotatable with respect to an axis of rotation (X), and a sealing a...