US Patent Issued to GE Aviation Systems on May 13 for "Wet and dry cavity generator systems and methods of manufacturing the same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,063, issued on May 13, was assigned to GE Aviation Systems LLC (Grand Rapids, Mich.).

"Wet and dry cavity generator systems and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hao Huang (Troy, Ohio), James Mahle (Vandalia, Ohio) and Xiaochuan Jia (Centerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a main rotor for a generator is provided. The method includes printing at least part of a rotor shaft by a three-dimensional printing process. The step of printing at least part of the rotor shaft includes printing a plurality of closed outlets and a plurality of open outlets. A rotor core is printed by the three...