ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,177, issued on May 27, was assigned to Electromechanical Engineering Associates Inc. (Monroeville, Pa.).
"Method of repairing a hydrogenerator" was invented by Jason Sinkhorn (Greensburg, Pa.), J. Barry Sargeant (DeLand, Fla.), Lauren Haley (Pittsburgh) and Thomas Schildkamp (Greensburg, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the ...