ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,238, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Evendale, Ohio).
"Shaft for a turbomachine" was invented by Prateek Jalan (Bengaluru, India), Kudum Shinde (Bengaluru, India), Milind Dhabade (Bengaluru, India), Ravindra Shankar Ganiger (Bengaluru, India) and Tyler F. Hooper (Lynn, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachine including a turbine rotor, a compressor rotor, and a shaft, and at least one balance weight assembly connected to the shaft. The shaft drivingly connects the turbine rotor with the compressor rotor to rotate the compressor rotor about a rotational axis when the turbine rotor rotates abou...