ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,257, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Bearing seat assembly and converter device" was invented by Huimin Han (Jiangsu, China), Klaus Zimmermann (Oberthulba, Germany) and Philipp Weippert (Dettelbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing seat assembly comprising first and second bearing seats, and linear bearings located there between. A convex portion protruding toward a first bottom portion of the first bearing seat is formed in the central portion of a second bottom portion of the second bearing seat, and a recessed shape recessed toward a direction away ...