ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,810, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rolls-Royce PLC (London).
"Rodstock drive assembly" was invented by Kevin M. World (Bristol, Great Britain), Simon Groves (Bristol, Great Britain) and Wojciech Wasinski (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rodstock barrel drive having a first and second roller gears, each having a toothed section and a gripping surface section, such that the teeth of the roller gears intermesh, causing rotation of one of roller gear to rotate the other roller gear in the opposite direction, so as to draw a rodstock through a space between the gripping surfaces of the pair of roller gears, a ...