ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,621, issued on July 15, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Thermal management system for a gas turbine engine" was invented by Steven Douglas Johnson (Milford, Ohio) and Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management system for a gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger including first and second sides, with the first side in contact with flow path air flowing through a flow path of the engine. Furthermore, the system includes a housing positioned relative to the heat exchanger such that the housing and the second side of the heat exchanger define a plenum config...