ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,073, issued on May 26, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).

"Planetary gearbox device comprising oil feed nozzles and oil feed channels arranged eccentrically inside planet gears, corresponding industrial gearbox, corresponding use, and corresponding method" was invented by Christoph Bruns (Bocholt, Germany), Michael Klein-Hitpass (Bocholt, Germany), Michael Tegelkamp (Bocholt, Germany) and Eugen Schlegel (Bocholt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planetary gear unit apparatus, in particular for an industrial gear unit, for example in the case of a vertical orientation of a drive train, includes a planetary carrier...