ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,940, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUPRAJIT ENGINEERING Ltd. (India).
"Assembly for securing a ferrule to a gear-box using a spring-loaded lock pin" was invented by Scott Schaeffr (Wichita, Kan.) and Pancham Koorana Anand (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an assembly (100) for securing a gear-box (101) using a spring-loaded lock pin (105) wherein the gear-box (101) is locked with a ferrule (103) by means of a spring-loaded lock pin (105) which enables lock and unlock of the ferrule (103) through a 'press and release' mechanism. The spring-loaded lock pin (105) comprises an internal k...