US Patent Issued to Aktiebolaget SKF on July 7 for "Support assembly" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,490, issued on July 7, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Support assembly" was invented by Andrea A. Bertolini (Carrara, Italy), Alessio Nebbia Colomba (Pisa, Italy) and Renato Berti (Massa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support assembly includes a casing having an internal assembly seat and a cylindrical seat formed on an axially inner side of the internal assembly seat, a bearing unit mounted within the internal assembly seat of the casing and including a stationary radially outer ring inserted in the assembly seat of the casing and comprising an axially internal annular surface and a rotating radially...