ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,115, issued on July 29, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Bearing assembly" was invented by Robert Schagerl (St. Leonhard am Forst, Austria) and Martin Schabasser (Pfaffing, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly includes: a shaft; a housing; a support structure; at least one first seal; at least one electrode connected to the support structure and arranged between the support structure and the shaft such that an oil vapor from the oil bath, which passes through the at least one first seal, must pass through a gap between the at least one electrode and the shaft in order to escape, the beari...