US Patent Issued to General Electric on Oct. 14 for "Methods and system for cleaning gas turbine engine" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,312, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Methods and system for cleaning gas turbine engine" was invented by Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Bernard Patrick Bewlay (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Byron Andrew Pritchard Jr. (Loveland, Ohio), Nicole Jessica Tibbetts (Delanson, N.Y.), Michael Edward Eriksen (Milford, Ohio) and Eric John Telfeyan (Delanson, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cleaning components of a gas turbine engine is presented. The method includes introducing a working fluid into a gas flow path or a cooling circuit defined by the one or more components of the ga...