ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,110, issued on March 18, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Self-aligning roller bearing" was invented by Christoph Schicke (Schweinfurt, Germany), Andreas Bierlein (Hassfurt, Germany) and Rainer Schroder (Egenhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reduction in the setting of rollers in a self-aligning roller bearing is provided. The self-aligning roller bearing has inner and outer bearing rings and rollers arranged at least in one roller row. The rollers have a curved lateral surface the direction of the rotation axis and has a radius, and roll over curved raceways of the beari...