US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on July 1 for "Vehicle wheel end assembly and a vehicle" (Swedish, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,034, issued on July 1, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Vehicle wheel end assembly and a vehicle" was invented by Kent Augustsson (Bollebygd, Sweden), Marcel Palmgren (Torslanda, Sweden) and Ramachandran Sandrasekaran (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle wheel end assembly comprising a wheel hub, rotatably mounted on a wheel axle spindle by a wheel bearing s comprising a roller bearing. The wheel bearing has a bearing inner ring mounted on an external section of the wheel axle spindle and a bearing outer ring mounted in an internal section of the wheel hub. The assembly further comprises a...