US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC, GE AVIO on July 1 for "Gearbox assembly with lubricant extraction volume ratio" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,201, issued on July 1, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio) and GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"Gearbox assembly with lubricant extraction volume ratio" was invented by Bugra H. Ertas (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Xiaohua Zhang (Glenville, N.Y.), Miriam Manzoni (Rivalta di Torino, Italy), Flavia Turi (Bari, Italy), Andrea Piazza (Turin, Italy), Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.) and Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox assembly includes a gearbox and a gutter for collecting a gearbox lubricant scavenge flow from the gearbox. The gutter is characterized by a lubricant extrac...