US Patent Issued to General Electric, General Electric Deutschland Holding on Dec. 30 for "Gas turbine engines with heat recovery systems" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,027, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany).

"Gas turbine engines with heat recovery systems" was invented by Paul Hadley Vitt (Evendale, Ohio), Michael Simonetti (West Chester, Ohio) and Ashish Sharma (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine includes a fan located at a forward portion of the gas turbine engine, a compressor section and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order. The compressor section and the turbine section together define a core airflow path. A rotary member is rotatable with at l...