US Patent Issued to Keystone Powdered Metal on April 29 for "Method for manufacturing combination or compound gears" (Pennsylvania, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,803, issued on April 29, was assigned to Keystone Powdered Metal Co. (St. Marys, Pa.).

"Method for manufacturing combination or compound gears" was invented by Kevin A. Bauer (St. Marys, Pa.) and Timothy E. Geiman (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of manufacturing combination gears and compound gears having challenging geometries using powder metal technology. This method allows for the production of combination gears and compound gears having any combination of straight or helical gear faces even in cases where the smaller gear intersects the flange of the larger gear creating a...