US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for integrating use of starter on the low pressure spool of a turbine engine" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,259, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for integrating use of starter on the low pressure spool of a turbine engine" was invented by Kevin Richard Graziano (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Stefan Joseph Cafaro (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine includes a low speed spool and a high speed spool. The low speed spool includes a low pressure (LP) compressor coupled to a LP turbine via a LP shaft. The high speed spool comprising includes a high pressure (HP) compressor coupled to a HP turbine via a HP shaft. A first...