US Patent Issued to General Electric, GE AVIO on Oct. 28 for "Methods and apparatus to control a surface of an aircraft engine" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,894, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and GE AVIO S.R.L. (Turin, Italy).

"Methods and apparatus to control a surface of an aircraft engine" was invented by Vincenzo Martina (Turin, Italy), Jeffrey D. Clements (Evendale, Ohio), Kevin Graziano (Evendale, Ohio) and Arthur W. Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to control a surface of an aircraft engine are disclosed. An example system to control a surface in an aircraft engine comprises a first valve to vary a flow of cold fluid from a thermal transfer bus (TTB) to an active surface control (ASC) system bas...