ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,638, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Planetary gearbox system and method therefor" was invented by Charles J. Ott (Keller, Texas), Nathaniel Bernklau (Keller, Texas) and Trenton Hamm (Cleburne, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved compound planetary gear system. In embodiments, a compound planetary gear system includes at least one planet pinion including a main shaft having a first gear for meshing with a sun gear and a second gear for meshing with a ring gear, and a carrier for supporting the at least one planet pinion. Teeth of the first gear are configured with a first ...