ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,783, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Gearbox heat recovery system" was invented by Charles Jared Ott (Keller, Texas), Brad Ekstrom (Fort Worth, Texas) and Alan Wayne Falls (Arlington, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for warming lubricant of a gearbox includes a heat exchanger connected to the gearbox, the gearbox configured to send the lubricant to the heat exchanger and the heat exchanger configured to receive the lubricant from the gearbox, warm the received lubricant using bleed air from an engine located proximate the heat exchanger, and return the warmed lubricant to t...