US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 13 for "Rapid active clearance control system of inter stage and mid-seals" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,741, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Rapid active clearance control system of inter stage and mid-seals" was invented by Taehong Kim (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus, systems, and methods for rapid active clearance control of inter-stage and mid-stage seals are disclosed. An example apparatus to control clearance for a turbine engine comprises a case surrounding at least part of the turbine engine and defining an opening therethrough; a nozzle, the nozzle including a reference pressure sensor and a static pressure sensor on a tip of the nozzle; an actuator incl...