ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,122, issued on May 27, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Sweden).
"Bearing unit with reinforced retention cage" was invented by Riccardo Restivo (Turin, Italy), Piero Santangelo (Turin, Italy), Gianpiero Scaltriti (Turin, Italy) and Flora Rosso (Pecetto T.SE, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cage for retaining one or more rolling bodies of a bearing unit, the cage including a rib having a plurality of spherical concave surfaces, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced tenons extending from a first axial side of the rib, each tenon of the plurality of tenons including a plurality of spherical concave surfaces and an armature...