ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,619, issued on March 31, was assigned to RENK GmbH (Germany).

"Drive system with at least one drive unit, particularly for high speed applications and method for operating a drive system" was invented by Peter Boiger (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system has at least one drive unit each drive unit including a central shaft and a central gear connected to the central shaft such that the central gear rotates at a speed of the central shaft. Two to four decentralized gears are distributed around the circumference of the central gear and mesh with the central gear such that the rotational speed of the central ...