ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,053, issued on May 26, was assigned to Edwards Ltd..

"Pump, a bearing assembly for a pump and a method of assembling the bearing assembly" was invented by Richard Glyn Horler (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Alexander James Patey (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), Christopher Miles (Burgess Hill, Great Britain), David Student (Lutin, Czech Republic) and Tomas Petr (Lutin, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly, method of assembling a bearing assembly and a pump are disclosed. The bearing assembly is for mounting a rotatable shaft of a pump, and comprises an inner ring and an outer ring and a plurality of rollable e...