ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,333, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Bearing assembly" was invented by Gregory Hofmann (Telford, Pa.), Hans Wallin (Cape Coral, Fla.), Benkui Xia (Nanjing, China) and Jingwen Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly is for supporting a shaft in a housing, preferably a rotor shaft of a centrifugal compressor. The bearing assembly includes at least a first bearing pair including a first rolling bearing and a second rolling bearing arranged back to back, each one of the first and second rolling bearings including an inner ring attached to the shaft, an outer ring and ...