US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND, ROLLS-ROYCE on Feb. 18 for "Planetary gearbox device and gas turbine engine with a planetary gearbox device" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,083, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany) and ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).

"Planetary gearbox device and gas turbine engine with a planetary gearbox device" was invented by Ivo Martin (Schoneiche, Germany), Bjorn Petersen (Berlin) and Andrea Minelli (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gearbox device includes a static ring gear, a rotatable planet carrier, a plurality of planet gears, each planet gear being connected to a bearing device, wherein at least one of the bearing devices is coupled to at least one lubricant scooping device and/or at le...