ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,545, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing component having a metallic base body and an alloy-steel coating" was invented by Juergen Gegner (Forchheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing component such as a bearing ring includes a metallic base body and at least one alloy steel coating on the base body, the coating being applied to the base body by deposition welding. The base body is preferably non-alloy steel or cast iron, and the alloy includes at least one carbide-forming transition metal such as niobium, tantalum, zirconium, titanium, hafnium, tungsten, molybdenum, vanad...