US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 17 for "Dual thrust bearing systems and methods for operating the same" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,781, issued on June 17, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Dual thrust bearing systems and methods for operating the same" was invented by Mohan Kannaiah Raju (Bengaluru, India), David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Santosh Kumar Pattnaik (Bengaluru, India), Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Sanjeev Sai Kumar Manepalli (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example thrust bearing apparatus includes: a thrust disk extending radially from the shaft, the thrust disk having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; a bearing housing surrou...