ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,057, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Gear shifting device, transmission mechanism, and wind turbine generator system" was invented by Xiaolan Ai (Beijing), Yuliang Yang (Beijing), Si Gao (Beijing), Honglei Xu (Beijing) and Xinliang Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear shifting device includes a first planetary gear train. The first planetary gear train includes a first ring gear, a first planet carrier, a first planet gear, a sun idler, and a planet idler; the planet idler and the first planet gear are both installed on the first planet car...