US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 24 for "Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,738, issued on June 24, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control" was invented by Pankaj Dhaka (Bengaluru, India), Paul Mathew (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Gautam Naik (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are example variable flowpath casings for blade tip clearance control. An example casing for a turbine engine includes a first annular substrate extending along an axial direction, the first annular substrate defining a cavity at a radially inward surface of the first annular substrate, a secon...