ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,202, issued on July 22, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Bleed valve assemblies" was invented by Li Zheng (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Nicholas J. Kray (Evendale, Ohio), Changjie Sun (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Thomas Malkus (Albany, N.Y.), Giridhar Jothiprasad (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Mitchell J. Headley (Lebanon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a variable bleed valve assembly. An example variable bleed valve assembly a variable bleed valve (VBV) door corresponding to a bleed port and a first unison ring, the VBV door coupled to the first uniso...