US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 4 for "Separators for use with gas turbine engines" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,627, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Separators for use with gas turbine engines" was invented by Pradeep Hemant Sangli (Bangalore, India), Santosh Kumar Potnuru (Bangalore, India), Keith A. Miedema (Fairfield, Ohio), Matthew D. Brothers (Cincinnati) and Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Separators for use with gas turbine engines are disclosed herein. An example separator disclosed herein includes a first ring including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a first opening extending from the first surface to the second surfac...