US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Nov. 11 for "Drive shaft with non-cylindrical shape and spaced reinforcements" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,499, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Drive shaft with non-cylindrical shape and spaced reinforcements" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Brayton Reed (New York Mills, N.Y.), Joyel Schaefer (Earlville, N.Y.) and Michael J. King (Sauquoit, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive shaft body has an axial cross-sectional shape, which includes a plurality of undulations increasing a drive shaft body diameter through an infinite number of diameters across at least 15% of an axial length between axial ends. There is at least one reinforcing belt associated with adjacent ...