US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 22 for "Air turbine starter with lubrication recirculation circuit" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,617, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Air turbine starter with lubrication recirculation circuit" was invented by Subrata Nayak (Bengaluru, India), Milind Chandrakant Dhabade (Bengaluru, India), Narendra Dev Mahadevaiah (Bengaluru, India), Sharad Pundlik Pati (Bengaluru, India), Shiloh Montegomery Meyers (Miamisburg, Ohio) and David Allan Dranschak (Union, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air turbine starter (ATS) for a gas turbine engine having an accessory gear box (AGB) with a lubricant reservoir, the air turbine starter comprising a housing at least partially defining a working air ...