US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on July 21 for "Double-row rolling bearing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,197, issued on July 21, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Double-row rolling bearing" was invented by Andreas Bierlein (HaBfurt, Germany), Dietmar Nusch (Wetter a.d.Ruhr, Germany), Sascha Hess (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Rainer Schroeder (Egenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double-row rolling bearing, having a split inner ring, an outer ring, rolling elements, and at least one cage. The split inner ring having at least on inner ring race, and the outer ring (4) having at least one outer ring race. The rolling elements being arranged such that they are mutually spaced in th...