ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,572, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Flender GmbH (Bocholt, Germany).
"Transmission" was invented by Katrin Dietz (Essen, Germany), Pascal Hessling (Bocholt, Germany) and Tim Vossschmidt (Gelsenkirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission includes a shaft-hub connection designed as a serration and having an axial extent along a shaft axis, and an oil supply line to the serration in order to lubricate a relative movement in the serration between a shaft side and a hub side of the shaft-hub connection. The oil supply line is designed to open from radially inward directly into a cavity on the serration to enable sup...