US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on June 3 for "Fabric foreign material exclusion system" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,267, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Fabric foreign material exclusion system" was invented by Magdalena Angelika Lula (Warsaw, Poland), Thomas Alan Mogle II (Greenville, S.C.), Christopher David Runkel (Greenville, S.C.), Sandra Beverly Kolvick (Greenville, S.C.), Nicholas Desmond Dupre (Greenville, S.C.) and Kelly Anne McManus (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foreign material exclusion system for positioning within a casing of a turbine to catch any foreign material during maintenance of the turbine. The foreign material exclusion system may include a fabric s...