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Are you refering to the roller bearing or the technology that enables the ball point pen to work? The roller bearing is a sphere that sits in a cone allowing smooth movement and a uniform means of distributing the ink within the pen.
Older metallic ball tips were machined by grinding them into a sphere
Powder Metallurgy process is employed to manufacture the current cemented carbide ballpoint tips
for more info google <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=ggr&q=%22ballpoint+pen%22+%2Bgrinding+%2Btip&btnG=Search" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">"ballpoint pen" +grinding +tip - Google Search</a>
& <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=kwW&q=%22ballpoint+pen%22+%2B%22powder+metallurgy%22&start=10&sa=N" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">"ballpoint pen" +"powder metallurgy" - Google Search</a>