ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,194, issued on March 25, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Thermal management system" was invented by Michael Simonetti (Liberty Township, Ohio), Michael Vadnais (Milwaukee), Nishita Deshmukh (Bengaluru, India), Ramana Reddy Kollam (Bengaluru, India), James Fitzgerald Bonar (Cincinnati), Mehmet Kilic (Kacaeli, Turkey) and Prerna Mandal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a thermal management system having a thermal fluid member having a flow of thermal fluid therethrough during operation of the gas turbine engine and a heat exchange...