ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,000, issued on March 18, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany).

"Oil system of a gas turbine engine, comprising a first oil circuit and at least one second oil circuit, and gas turbine engine" was invented by David Williams (Bristol, Great Britain), Stefan Menczykalski (Berlin), Stephan Uhkotter (Berlin), Uwe Kracht (Berlin) and Wolfram Kurz-Hardjosoekatmo (Kleinmachnow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil system of a gas turbine engine, includes a first oil circuit and a second oil circuit. Via the oil circuits, oil is supplied to a hydraulic load of a transmission of the engin...