US Patent Issued to GE AVIO on Aug. 12 for "Gearbox assembly for a turbine engine" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,442, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Gearbox assembly for a turbine engine" was invented by Andrea Piazza (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox assembly for a turbine engine. The turbine engine includes an engine static structure. The gearbox assembly includes a gear assembly, an input shaft coupled to the gear assembly, an output shaft drivingly coupled to the input shaft through the gear assembly, and a gearbox assembly disengagement system. The gearbox assembly disengagement system includes a one-way clutch that engages the gearbox assembly to the engine static struct...