US Patent Issued to GE AVIO, GE AVIATION CZECH S.R.O. on Nov. 3 for "Turbine engine gearbox assembly" (Czech, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,672, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy) and GE AVIATION CZECH S.R.O. (Prague).

"Turbine engine gearbox assembly" was invented by Michele Gravina (Milan) and Juraj Hrubec (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine having a turbo-engine coupled to an input shaft, a fan coupled to an output shaft, and a gearbox assembly. A torque is transferrable from the input shaft to the output shaft through the gearbox assembly. The gearbox assembly has a split sun gear rotationally coupled to the input shaft, a plurality of planet gears located radially outward of, and intermeshing with, the spli...