US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on April 21 for "Flexible metallic coupling for drive shafts made by additive manufacturing" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,232, issued on April 21, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Flexible metallic coupling for drive shafts made by additive manufacturing" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Jeffrey L. Mathis (Rome, N.Y.), Michael J. King (Sauquoit, N.Y.) and Brayton Reed (New York Mills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metallic coupling for a drive shaft includes a first cylindrical flange extending axially along a center axis and a second cylindrical flange extending axially along the center axis and spaced axially from the first cylindrical flange. The metallic coupling also includes a first plurality and a se...