US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Aug. 25 for "Bearing component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,454, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing component" was invented by Michael Wendel (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing component has a raceway face and a non-functional face different from the raceway face, and at least one first portion of the non-functional face is laser-hardened. Also a method that includes providing a bearing component having a raceway face and a non-functional face different from the raceway face and laser hardening at least one first portion of the non-functional face."

The patent was filed on May 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/675,278. ...