ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,430, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DANA (WUXI) TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).

"System with a planetary gearbox" was invented by Ling Dong (Wuxi, China), Ke Liu (Wuxi, China) and Fabio Beccari (Bibbiano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a drilling machine. The drilling machine system, in one example, includes a gearbox with a planetary reduction and a floating input coupling directly coupled to or formed in a sun gear shaft that is included in the planetary reduction. Further, in the drilling machine system, the input coupling is unsupported by a bearing and rotational axes of the floating input an...