US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 27 for "System and method for reducing a clearance gap in an engine" (Ohio, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,012, issued on May 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"System and method for reducing a clearance gap in an engine" was invented by Michael Scott McCambridge (Loveland, Ohio), Logan Daniel Fritz (West Chester, Ohio), David Marion Ostdiek (Liberty Township, Ohio), Timothy M. Kasberg (Liberty Township, Ohio), Jason Holden (Wyoming, Ohio) and Syed J. Khalid (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing a clearance gap between a plurality of rotor blades and a shroud assembly of an engine includes determining, with a flight control system, that an airplane is in a first flight c...