US Patent Issued to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER on April 15 for "Gear wheel and compressor device equipped with such gear wheel" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,316, issued on April 15, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO AIRPOWER NAAMLOZE VENNOOTSCHAP (Wilrijk, Belgium).

"Gear wheel and compressor device equipped with such gear wheel" was invented by Bjorn Verrelst (Wilrijk, Belgium), Stijn Pittois (Wilrijk, Belgium), Nils Vercauteren (Wilrijk, Belgium) and Hans Meeus (Wilrijk, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gear wheel that is provided with spokes (17) which extend between a rim (16) supporting a gear mesh (15) and a corresponding gear hub (18), whereby free spaces (19) are located between the spokes (17) which extend between the rim (16) and the gear hub (18), characterised in that at least...