US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on May 19 for "Flexible composite drive shaft" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,208, issued on May 19, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Flexible composite drive shaft" was invented by Mark R. Gurvich (Middletown, Conn.), Michael J. King (Sauquoit, N.Y.), Brayton Reed (New York Mills, N.Y.) and Joyel Schaefer (Earlville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite drive shaft includes a web-based body defining a longitudinal axis. The web-based body has a first composite layup end section, a second composite layup end section that is opposite to the first composite layup end section, a first spiral composite element extending between the first composite end section and the second composite la...