ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,657, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Apparatus to reduce bearing failure" was invented by Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio), Bugra H. Ertas (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Veera Venkata Amarnath Manem (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to reduce failure to bearings in a pump system. Disclosed herein is a pump system comprising a shaft connected to an impeller of the pump system, and a bearing to provide a dampening to the shaft, the bearing including a journal lining, the journal lining supported in the pump system...