US Patent Issued to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology on Oct. 27 for "System and method for surface treatment of spline gears" (South Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,663, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GE Vernova Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method for surface treatment of spline gears" was invented by Surinder Singh Pabla (Greer, S.C.), Jon Conrad Schaffer (Greenville, S.C.), Donald Timothy Lemon (Greenville, S.C.), Richert Arthur Davis (Greenville, S.C.) and William McEntaggart (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a turbine and a spline gear coupled to the turbine. The spline gear includes first and second gear portions. The first gear portion includes a first surface configured to engage a second surface of the second gear portion...