ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,913, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Hydraulic pump unit having knurled connection of a pillow block to a housing" was invented by Maximilian Haas (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the disclosure, a pillow block for a pump is connected to a housing by means of a knurl in order to form a hydraulic pump unit in that the knurl is pressed into a first region of a receptacle for the pillow block. The resulting chips can be received in a chip space which is secured by a projection of the pillow block so that the chips are prevented from moving towar...