US Patent Issued to General Electric Deutschland Holding, c/o General Electric on Jan. 13 for "Compressor bleed-air boost system" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,178, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to General Electric Deutschland Holding GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany) and c/o General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Compressor bleed-air boost system" was invented by Antonio Guijarro Valencia (Munich), Paul A. Intemann (Ft. Thomas, Ky.), Marta Pelivan (Munich) and Mustafa Kocaguel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressor bleed-air boost system includes a high-pressure compressor comprising a first rotor disk and a second rotor disk coupled together via a drive arm and a rotor shaft. The rotor shaft is configured to rotate in a rotational direction about an axial centerline of the high-pr...