ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,516, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio), General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) and General Electric Co. Polska Sp. z o.o (Warsaw, Poland).

"Gas turbine engine with a fluid conduit system and a method of operating the same" was invented by Ashish Sharma (Munich), Piotr Jerzy Kulinski (Warsaw, Poland), Adam Tomasz Pazinski (Warsaw, Poland), Tomasz Jan Bulsiewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Scott Alan Schimmels (Miamisburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a gas turbine engine comprising: extracting a flow of air from a compressor section of the gas turbine ...