US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Nov. 4 for "Self-contained bearing and wireless power transmission device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,496, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Self-contained bearing and wireless power transmission device" was invented by Mathieu Hubert (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Christopher Rybski (White Lake, Mich.), Gene A Kovacs (Brighton, Mich.) and William Robert George (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly includes an annular carrier, an outer ring disposed within the carrier, the outer ring having an outer raceway and a transmitter coil spaced axially from the outer raceway. The transmitter coil is electrically connectable with a battery and is configured to generate an electro...