US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 3 for "Gas turbine engine including a compressor bleed air system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,304, issued on June 3, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Gas turbine engine including a compressor bleed air system" was invented by Meredith Wulff (North Reading, Mass.), Jonathan Atef Tawfik (Arlington, Mass.) and Jesse Ollove (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine includes a compressor bleed air system that includes a compressor shroud, a compressor bleed air plenum, and a plurality of compressor bleed air passages arranged through the compressor shroud that provide fluid communication between the compressor airflow passage and the compressor bleed air plenum. The plurality of compresso...