US Patent Issued to General Electric on Jan. 28 for "Thrust bearings to support axial thrust in pumps" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,507, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Thrust bearings to support axial thrust in pumps" was invented by Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Santosh Kumar Pattnaik (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to dynamically support axial thrust in pumps. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a first thrust pad, a second thrust pad, and a thrust disc between the first thrust pad and the second thrust pad, the thrust disc including a...