ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,508, issued on July 7, was assigned to KOBE STEEL LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Manufacturing method of gear box and manufacturing method of rotating machine" was invented by Komei Fujioka (Takasago, Japan) and Shigeru Matsuda (Takasago, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a gear box for a rotating machine for transmitting power of a motor, the gear box including a bull gear connected to an input shaft of the motor and a pinion gear meshing with the bull gear, forms the bull gear and the pinion gear based on a design result determined using a designing method of a gear box. In the designing method of a gear box, pitc...