ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,873, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Systems and method for use in servicing a machine" was invented by Deepak Trivedi (Halfmoon, N.Y.), Todd William Danko (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Mark John Zajkowski (Austerlitz, N.Y.) and Don Mark Lipkin (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use in servicing a machine. The system includes a tubular body including a longitudinal axis, a tip end, a dispensing nozzle defined at the tip end, and an interior channel in flow communication with the dispensing nozzle. The tubular body is configured to be flexible. An actuator is configured to...