US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Oct. 21 for "Hybrid thrust foil bearing" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,001, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Hybrid thrust foil bearing" was invented by Daejong Kim (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a hybrid thrust foil bearing is provided. A thrust foil bearing or hybrid thrust foil bearing can comprise a disc-shaped backing plate and a bearing pad attached to the backing plate, the bearing pad having a taper portion and a flat portion, the taper portion extending from a leading edge of the bearing pad to a first angular distance and the flat portion extending from the first angular distan...