ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,018, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS SAS (Vernon, France).
"Backlash reduction in epicyclic gears" was invented by Karl Potier (Paris) and Maxime Serrand (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An epicyclic gear assembly includes: a sun gear rotatable about an axis (A); a plurality of planetary gears arranged around and in meshing engagement with the sun gear such that rotation of the sun gear about its axis causes corresponding rotation of each of the planetary gears about their own axes; and an outer ring gear arranged around and in meshing engagement with the plurality of planetary gears such that rotat...