US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on June 24 for "Apparatus and method for transmitting radiation to a rotating component" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,113, issued on June 24, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Apparatus and method for transmitting radiation to a rotating component" was invented by Kurt Kramer Schleif (Greenville, S.C.), Michael Allen Ball (Greer, S.C.) and Andrew David Ellis (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for radiation measurement are used to determine clearance of a rotating gas turbine component. The apparatus includes a probe body on a stationary component outward of the rotating component and a pair of sensor assemblies coupled to the probe body. Each sensor assembly includes a plurali...