US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Aug. 19 for "Methods and apparatus for thermal management of sumps using oleophilic and oleophobic coatings" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,374, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Methods and apparatus for thermal management of sumps using oleophilic and oleophobic coatings" was invented by Arman Mohammad Khan (Bengaluru, India), Souvik Math (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Arundhati Sengupta (Bengaluru, India), Santosh Prasad (Bengaluru, India) and Duane H Anstead (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oleophobic and/or oleophilic coatings to reduce heat loads on a gas turbine engine thermal management system are disclosed herein. An example method to reduce heat load in a gas turbine en...