ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,774, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DANA ITALIA S.R.L. (Arco, Italy).
"Systems and methods for gearbox fluid reservoir" was invented by Matteo Stefani (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Matteo Dallapiccola (Trento, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for a lubricating apparatus for a gearbox. In one example, an apparatus may include a curved shroud enclosing a portion of a gear, a first side oil collector and a second side oil collector, an oil reservoir having a first end fluidly coupled to the first side oil collector and a second end fluidly coupled to the second side oil collector, and a metering orifi...