ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,029, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Gas turbine engine having cooling systems" was invented by Brandon Wayne Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Jeffrey Douglas Rambo (Mason, Ohio) and Efren Souza Chavez (Queretaro, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided, having: a bifurcation; and a turbomachine further including a cooled cooling air (CCA) system, the CCA system having: a cold side bleed assembly defining an inlet positioned to be in fluid communication with an airflow over the bifurcation; a CCA heat exchanger in thermal communication with the cold side bleed assemb...