US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE Avio on Oct. 21 for "System and method for detecting and reducing torque in a turbine engine" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,925, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and GE Avio S.r.l. (Rivalta di Torino, Italy).

"System and method for detecting and reducing torque in a turbine engine" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Andrew Hudecki (Milford, Ohio), Kevin Richard Graziano (Cincinnati), Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Inenhe Mohammed Khalid (Hamilton, Ohio), Andrea Piazza (Turin, Italy) and Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan section having a fan rotatable with a fan shaft, a turbomachinery section having a turbine ...