US Patent Issued to General Electric on April 8 for "Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,308, issued on April 8, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" was invented by Naveena K P (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Domala Uma Maheshwar (Bengaluru, India), Kishore Budumuru (Bengaluru, India), Kudum Shinde (Bengaluru, India) and Abhishek Goverdhan (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 an annular substrate extending along an axial direction, the annular substrate including a ...