US Patent Issued to General Electric, General Electric Company Polska sp. z on Nov. 25 for "Compressor bleed slots with variable wall structures" (Indian, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,511, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and General Electric Co. Polska sp. z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland).

"Compressor bleed slots with variable wall structures" was invented by Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bangalore, India), Santosh Kumar Prasad (Bangalore, India) and Michal Tomasz Kuropatwa (Warsaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressor bleed slots with variable wall structures are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to be coupled to a wall of a bleed slot of a compressor of a gas turbine engine, the bleed slot defining a flow path, the apparatus comprising a member to ...