ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,410, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and NEUROS Co. LTD. (Yuseong-gu, South Korea).
"Airfoil journal bearing" was invented by Jinwoo Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyeong Dong Kim (Sejong, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airfoil journal bearing journal bearing includes a bearing housing for rotatably supporting a rotation shaft and including a hollow through which the rotation shaft is inserted, and an airfoil between an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing and an outer circumferential surface of the rotation sh...