ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,878, issued on March 25, was assigned to GE AVIO S.R.L. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).
"Lubricant system" was invented by Pietro Molesini (Castelnuovo del Garda, Italy), Alberto Frezet (Turin, Italy) and Saypen Baraggia Au Yeung (Valenza, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant system for supplying lubrication to a component in a turbine engine includes a lubricant reservoir, a supply line fluidly coupling the lubricant reservoir to the component in the turbine engine, a scavenge line fluidly coupling the component to the lubricant reservoir, and a bypass line fluidly coupling the supply line to the scavenge line and bypassing...