US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on July 15 for "Turbine engine with three air streams" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,612, issued on July 15, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"Turbine engine with three air streams" was invented by Jeffrey D. Rambo (Mason, Ohio) and Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a cooling air duct for cooling air positioned radially between a core air flow path for core air and a bypass airflow passage for bypass air. A heat exchanger is positioned in the cooling air duct to transfer heat from a heat source from within the turbine engine. The heat exchanger may be a condenser. The turbine engine may further include a steam system that extracts...