US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 13 for "System and method for reducing motoring time in a turbomachine based on shaft deflection" (Ohio, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,197, issued on May 13, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"System and method for reducing motoring time in a turbomachine based on shaft deflection" was invented by Bradley Alan Bauer (Cincinnati), Brendon Matthew Leeker (Cincinnati), Joseph Alfred Iannotti (Glenville, N.Y.), Glen Peter Koste (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Jason Case (Waterford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring shaft deflection in a turbomachine includes communicating one or more signals from a controller to a plurality of sensing devices positioned on a shaft of a turbomachine across an airgap defined between a rotating antenn...