US Patent Issued to General Electric on July 1 for "Apparatus and method for guiding a cutting/drilling tool and capturing generated foreign material" (South Carolina, Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,806, issued on July 1, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Apparatus and method for guiding a cutting/drilling tool and capturing generated foreign material" was invented by Christopher David Runkel (Greer, S.C.), Thomas Alan Mogle II (Simpsonville, S.C.), Marcus Nolan Adams (Defuniak Springs, Fla.), Mark Andrew Haley (Garden Prairie, Ill.) and Sandra Beverly Kolvick (Simpsonville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide for cutting a dowel pin of a rotor assembly is provided. The guide includes a catch basin, including a first catch basin portion and a second catch basin portion, and a shim. The first catch...