ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,229, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS Ltd. (Solihull, Great Britain).
"Harmonic drive" was invented by Neil Stuart Russell Whitfield (Shifnal, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive for a harmonic gear assembly, comprising an input shaft having a shaft axis (A) and an epicyclic carrier unit removably mounted around, and coaxial with the input shaft, the epicyclic carrier unit comprising a carrier having an interior circumference designed to match the outer circumference of the shaft and further comprising a first roller assembly mounted at a first location around the circumference of the car...