ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,389, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Multi shaft power transfer system" was invented by Tadashi Sawata (Coventry, Great Britain) and Aaron Day (Sevenoaks, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical power-transfer system for an engine includes first and second engine shafts. The system also includes a planetary gear system having a sun gear, a ring gear, a plurality of planetary gears enmeshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, and a carrier supporting the plurality of planetary gears, where the carrier is configured for connection to be driven by the first engine shaf...