ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,288, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Housing of an induction hardening tool" was invented by Michael Wendel (Bremen, Germany), Martina Sticht (Sennfeld, Germany) and Gerhard Wagner (Prichsenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for a component of an inductive hardening system includes a basic body having a coolant inlet and a coolant outlet, and at least one cover element connected to the basic body and having at least one coolant passage in fluidic communication with the coolant inlet and the coolant outlet, the coolant passage being configured to carry a coolant for activel...