US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 22 for "Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,577, issued on April 22, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" was invented by Raghuveer Chinta (Bengaluru, India), Abhijit Roy (Bengaluru, India), Vaishnav Raghuvaran (Bengaluru, India), Srinivas Nuthi (Bengaluru, India) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control. An example casing for a turbine engine includes a first annular substrate extending along an axial direction; a second annular substrate positioned radially inward relative to t...