US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 13 for "System and method for servicing aircraft engines" (Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,377, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"System and method for servicing aircraft engines" was invented by Satya Mohan Vamsi Andalam (Bangalore, India), Vivek Janu (Bangalore, India), Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy (Hyderabad, India), Sandeep Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for servicing internal components of an aircraft engine includes a flexible hollow tube; a latching mechanism connected to or incorporated with the flexible hollow tube; and a servicing device to be inserted through the flexible hollow t...