US Patent Issued to Mainspring Energy on March 18 for "Systems and methods for flexure-based bearing mounting" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,514, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mainspring Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for flexure-based bearing mounting" was invented by John Lawler (Portland, Ore.), Neil Watters (Redwood City, Calif.), Samuel Sherman (San Francisco), Matthew Svrcek (Redwood City, Calif.) and David DeGraaff (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly for a linear electromagnetic machine includes a sleeve having a surface configured to provide a bearing between the surface and a translator, a front plate coupled to the sleeve, a support block, and a plurality of flexures coupled to the support block...