ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,525, issued on March 24, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Bearing assembly" was invented by Juergen Barthelme (Grettstadt, Germany), Helmut Hauck (Euerbach, Germany), Stefanie Seufert (Rothhausen, Germany) and Hubert Herbst (Gadheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a bearing assembly includes providing a bearing unit configured to support a rotatable component relative to a stationary component, the bearing unit including a stationary bearing ring and a rotatable bearing ring, and overmolding a material onto a portion of a radial surface of the stationary bearing ring, the portion be...