ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,909, issued on March 25, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gearbox assembly" was invented by David Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Paul Mathew (Bengaluru, India), Parmeet Chhabra (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Souvik Porel (Bengaluru, India), Gautam Naik (Bengaluru, India) and Norman A. Turnquist (Sloansville, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gearbox assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a hollow gear. The hollow gear has one or more reservoirs configured to store a lubricant and one or more passages configured to supply the lubricant to one or more gear meshes in th...