ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,570, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FLENDER GMBH (Bocholt, Germany).

"Overload protection for drive test stands" was invented by Ralf Hambrecht (Bocholt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor bearing unit for testing a drive component is described. The rotor bearing unit has a shaft part, a guide box, and a housing part. The shaft part is rotatably arranged relative to the housing part, the housing part is frictionally connected to the guide box, the housing part of the rotor bearing unit is designed to connect to a housing of the drive component to be tested in a force-fitting and/or form-fitting manner, and the shaft p...