US Patent Issued to GENERAL ELECTRIC on Sept. 16 for "High-speed shaft rating for turbine engines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,277, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).

"High-speed shaft rating for turbine engines" was invented by Bhaskar Nanda Mondal (Bengaluru, India), Narayanan Payyoor (Thrissur, India) and Pranav Kamat (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine engine includes an engine core including a high-pressure compressor, a high-pressure turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine. The engine core has a length (LCORE), and the high-pressure compressor has an exit stage diameter (DCORE). A high-pressure shaft i...