US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Dec. 16 for "Bearing lubricant drain" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,999, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Bearing lubricant drain" was invented by Santosh Potnuru (Bengaluru, India), Pradeep Hemant Sangli (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Souvik Math (Bengaluru, India), Duane H. Anstead (Fairfield, Ohio) and Matthew D. Brothers (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly includes a bearing, an outer race located radially outward of the bearing and supporting the bearing, a bearing housing located radially outward of the outer race and supporting the bearing and the outer race, and a bearing lubricant drain ...