ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,518, issued on May 20, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).
"Thermal bias control in turbomachines" was invented by Constantinos Minas (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Harry Kirk Mathews Jr. (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Gregory Alexander Natsui (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Lana Maria Osusky (Rexford, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine control system may be configured to perform a method of controlling thermal bias in a turbomachine. An exemplary method may include determining a thermal bias-value for the turbomachine, and performing a cooling treatment based at least in part on the thermal bias-value. The thermal bias-value ...