ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,332, issued on July 22, was assigned to WUXI HAIDAER PRECISION SLIDES Co. LTD (Jiangsu, China).

"Ball bearing slide" was invented by Xinglong Xu (Jiangsu, China), Haiwen Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Lian Zou (Jiangsu, China), Feng Qian (Jiangsu, China), Kai Dai (Jiangsu, China) and Qiang Ji (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball bearing slide includes: two outer slides, an inner slide located in the outer slides, two ball cages, and ball rows rollably arranged in the ball cages and supported between the inner slide and the outer slides; wherein the inner slide includes two end parts and a connecting part connecting the two ...