ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,436, issued on May 6, was assigned to TAJFUN LIV, PROIZVODNJA IN RAZVOJ D.O.O. (Slovenia).

"Bearing assembly in a mobile hydraulic crane telescopic arm and a mobile hydraulic crane comprising such assembly" was invented by Iztok Span (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Branko Gril (Prestranek, Slovenia), Boris Jerman (Radomlje, Slovenia) and Luka Bizjak (Col, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a telescopic bearing assembly capable of withstanding predetermined bending loads and at the same time is fully telescopically extendable, while minimizing a wall thickness (t) in each of tubular bearing sections of an a...