US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Feb. 10 for "Sensor assembly to detect propeller whirl in a turbine engine" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,255, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Sensor assembly to detect propeller whirl in a turbine engine" was invented by Puneeth Lingaiah (Bengaluru, India), Dinesh Rakwal (Bengaluru, India) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate about a longitudinal centerline axis of the turbine engine, a pitch actuator configured to control a pitch angle of each of the plurality of fan blades, a sensor assembly configured to detect a holding torque of the plurality of fan blades, and a controller...