ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,594, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).
"Support member and support system for installing a turbine assembly" was invented by Piotr Krzysztof Dzieciol (Mazowieckie, Poland), Sean Cornelius O'Meara (Schenectady, N.Y.), Adrian Adam Klejc (Mazowieckie, Poland) and Szymon Perkowski (Mazowieckie, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support member for supporting a turbine assembly during installation includes a platform having a plurality of modular platform components oriented to define an upper surface of the platform. The support member also includes a linear actuator selectively po...