ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,261, issued on May 6, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Bearing and steering apparatus having the same" was invented by Kyeongho Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing is disposed between a steering shaft and an inner column covering at least a part of the steering shaft. The bearing includes: an inner ring supporting an outer circumference of the steering shaft and having an elastically deformable material such as a plastic-containing material; an outer ring of which at least a part faces an inner circumference of the inner column; and a roller rotatably disposed between the inner ...