US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on Aug. 4 for "Rolling bearing, in particular a wheel hub assembly, having an improved service life and related method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,802, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Rolling bearing, in particular a wheel hub assembly, having an improved service life and related method" was invented by Davide Antonio Olivieri (Turin, Italy) and Riccardo Nardicchia (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller bearing includes inner and outer rings each having a raceway, an annular space between the raceways, and a plurality of rolling elements and a lubricating grease in the annular space. The raceways have a predetermined roughness value within a first predetermined range, and the lubricating grease contains graphene particles ...