US Patent Issued to DOOSAN ENERBILITY on July 15 for "Apparatus using root cause analysis for predicting blade damage and method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,589, issued on July 15, was assigned to DOOSAN ENERBILITY Co. LTD. (Changwon, South Korea).

"Apparatus using root cause analysis for predicting blade damage and method therefor" was invented by Seung Min Lee (Changwon, South Korea), Luke Park (Yongin, South Korea) and Beom Cheol Hwang (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are an apparatus using root cause analysis (RCA) for predicting blade damage and a method therefor. The method for predicting damage includes generating a reduced-order model that derives damage information indicating damage to a blade according to operation conditions of a gas turbine apparat...