US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on April 29 for "Inner turbine case suspension device and method of alignment" (South Carolina, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,891, issued on April 29, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Inner turbine case suspension device and method of alignment" was invented by Kelly McManus (Greenville, S.C.), Thomas A. Mogle (Simpsonville, S.C.), Christopher David Runkel (Taylors, S.C.), William Ordean (Coldwater, Ohio) and Sandra Kolvick (Five Forks, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides an inner compressor casing suspension device for lifting an inner compressor casing-inner diffuser casing assembly within an outer compressor casing. The inner compressor casing suspension device may include one more forward inn...