US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on March 3 for "Integrated air turbine starter" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,859, issued on March 3, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Integrated air turbine starter" was invented by James Scharfenberg (Rockford, Ill.), August Metzler (Machesney Park, Ill.) and Michael Blewett (Stillman Valley, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air turbine starter (ATS) assembly for an aircraft has an ATS mounted to an accessory drive gearbox. The ATS includes an ATS output shaft is configured to pass from the ATS into the accessory drive gearbox. The accessory drive gearbox includes an overrunning clutch assembly configured to rotationally connect the ATS output shaft to an accessory gearbox ...