US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE on Oct. 6 for "Reliable gearbox for gas turbine engine" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,724, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).

"Reliable gearbox for gas turbine engine" was invented by Mark Spruce (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes an engine core having a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft interconnecting the turbine and compressor. A fan with multiple fan blades is positioned upstream of the engine core and is driven at a reduced rotational speed through an epicyclic gearbox coupled to the core shaft. The gearbox includes a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears mounted on a planet carrier, and a ring gear. The planet carrier h...