ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,748, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LocuDrive Ltd. (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).
"Low-profile toroidal slewing drive" was invented by Alexander Gorinstein (Netanya, Israel) and Aleksander Dvorskyy (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toroidal slewing drive includes a slewing bearing, a slewing output gear and at least one arc-shaped gear box. The slewing bearing includes an inner ring and an outer ring which move relative to one another. The slewing output gear includes gear teeth between an upper gear slot and a lower gear slot and is mounted on one of the inner ring and the outer ring. The at least one arc-shaped gear bo...