ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,997, issued on May 27, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Turbine engine having a bleed system" was invented by Brandon W. Miller (Middletown, Ohio), Andrew J. Hank (Maineville, Ohio), Scott D. Hunter (Seattle), Geoffrey Whitener (Cincinnati), Paul Pezzi (Cincinnati) and Jeffrey D. Clements (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbine engine includes a high-pressure (HP) compressor and a bleed system. The HP compressor includes an HP compressor flowpath and a plurality of stages of HP compressor rotor blades and HP compressor stator vanes. The bleed system includes a plurality of bleed flowpaths incl...