ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,647, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Integrated bearing systems for dynamically supporting shafts in pump systems" was invented by David Raju Yamarthi (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India), Adam Joseph Wangler (Evendale, Ohio), Mohan Kannaiah Raju (Bengaluru, India), Prachi Anand Tappu (Bengaluru, India), Santosh Kumar Pattnaik (Bengaluru, India), Shishir Paresh Shah (Bengaluru, India), Brandon W. Miller (Evendale, Ohio), Daniel A. Niergarth (Evendale, Ohio) and Kevin Edward Hinderliter (Evendale, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump system to pressurize a fluid...